A review by thecolorplaid_
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

3.0

When I first started reading this book, I thought the similarities in my life would make it too hard to read. Turns out it was actually the writing that made it too hard to read. It is a very important book, no doubt. If anything, it helps one see and recognize when help beyond friends and family is needed for depression. It felt self-involved and annoying at times, and I know that this is exactly what depression is about and what is feels like, but it made the book, at times, unreadable. The title does nothing for the book until the last 30 pages, which all too quickly sew shut the gashes and wound this book opens in Wurtzel���s life. This book���s climax and ending happen almost in the same heartbeat, leaving me feel as though there was a publication date that needed to be met, rather than feeling like everything was summed up and rendered as a memoir tends to be. I won���t be keeping this book on my shelf, but I���m glad I finally read it. At least there���s that.