The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
A Memoir of Amnesia
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Narrated by:
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Neil Shah
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Written by:
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David Stuart MacLean
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Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there. This is what happened to David MacLean.
In 2002, at age 28, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity.
Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he was taking. Upon hisreturn to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself.
A deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from MacLean’s award-winning This American Life essay, confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable, especially to ourselves.
©2014 David Stuart MacLean (P)2014 Blackstone AudioWhat listeners say about The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
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- Roberta W
- 2021-08-30
Frightening story, well told
What a frightening side effect of taking an anti-malarial medication. Written from the perspective of the confusion he felt when he opened his eyes on that train platform, the telling kept me hanging on. I learned about who David is as each new puzzle piece came along.
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