Hello to All That
A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace
John Falk
- An
- off-the-wall,
- heartbreaking,
- and
- often
- hilarious
- memoir
- of
- a
- correspondent
- reporting
- from
- the
- front
- lines
- while
- also
- battling
- his
- lifelong
- nemesis-chronic
- depressionHis
- own
- chemistry
- was
- his
- worst
- enemy,
- and
- it
- took
- John
- Falk
- to
- some
- very
- strange
- places-from
- Garden
- City,
- Long
- Island,
- to
- sniper-infested
- Sarajevo
- during
- the
- Bosnian
- bloodbath.
- But
- through
- it
- all,
- in
- the
- face
- of
- chronic
- depression,
- he
- kept
- reaching
- out
- for
- the
- life
- he'd
- always
- wanted.
- Hello
- to
- All
- That
- is
- his
- story-crazed,
- comic,
- poignant,
- suspenseful,
- hopeful.Falk
- was
- an
- average
- Long
- Island
- kid,
- until
- depression
- left
- him
- ashamed
- and
- trapped
- behind
- an
- impenetrable
- chemical
- wall.
- Barely
- surviving
- on
- "chin-up"
- tips
- from
- his
- big,
- loyal,
- boisterous
- family,
- Falk
- tried
- to
- fight
- his
- disease-or
- hide
- it.
- But
- by
- twenty-four,
- he
- was
- alone,
- living
- on
- books
- by
- war
- correspondents,
- their
- adventures
- his
- only
- escape.
- Then
- he
- found
- a
- blue
- pill
- called
- Zoloft
- and
- set
- out
- on
- a
- mission
- to
- make
- his
- own
- name
- as
- a
- correspondent
- during
- one
- of
- the
- most
- dangerous
- conflicts
- in
- recent
- memory.
- Falk's
- journey
- has
- never
- been
- predictable,
- and
- neither
- is
- his
- moving,
- outrageous,
- and
- sometimes
- frightening
- memoir.Here
- is
- the
- riveting
- tale
- of
- a
- man's
- lifelong
- battle-the
- struggle
- to
- defeat
- his
- greatest
- enemy
- and
- to
- connect,
- cure
- himself,
- and
- finally live.
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