Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781616953447
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $38.00

Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See

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This is a literary page-turner of the first order, and a brilliant inside look at mental illness.

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years.

“You won’t be able to put down this exhilarating debut novel... brave and touching.” 
—Marie Claire

In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd—a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter for a decade to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he’s been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greyson’s travels (Rome, Israel, Santiago, Thailand, Uganda); the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greyson’s childhood eyes; and the intricacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him undergo twelve 30-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward.
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781616953447
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See

"A fine, sharp-tongued debut. "Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See" is a novel deeply wrapped around its subject, but it has its sights on grander themes -- namely, how to survive in a world not made for you."
--Los Angeles Times

"You won't be able to put down this exhilarating debut novel... brave and touching."
--Marie Claire

"[Garey's] tense, unsettling, and convincing portrait of mental illness...[makes] a dark novel glow."
--Entertainment Weekly

"[Greyson Todd] is interesting and complex...We are deftly led through his erratic trains of thought, and suddenly we are with him in the irrational, sometimes violent place, and oddly, we understand how we got there."
--All Things Considered

"Garey delivers a genuinely harrowing story that, against all odds, is deeply enjoyable."
--Boston Globe

"A gripping tale of a man's unraveling."
--Real Simple