MONKEY MIND A Memoir of Anxiety

Expressive and immensely entertaining, Paul Michael Garcia’s narration captures every nuance in the author’s witty take on the many faces of anxiety. It’s a performance that propels the mission of this carefully drawn memoir—to liberate anxiety’s beleaguered, overly serious victims and make them laugh while they consider their lives. With appealing first-person writing, the author achieves his goal superbly by describing how one lifelong anxiety sufferer (complete with nutty family) learned how to unravel his symptoms’ origins, understand adult love and responsibility, and consider the contradictory anxiety remedies offered to him. As a memoir, it’s certainly more cathartic and evocative than prescriptive, but because of the author’s sensibilities and Garcia’s extraordinary performance, this is an audio that will inspire a lot of productive reflection on how to live with an anxiety disorder. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2012]