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Manic Kingdom
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ISBN13: 9781984032959
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jan 19 2018
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Manic Kingdom is a work of fiction inspired by true events about what it feels like to lose your grip on reality - and what happens when the search for answers becomes its own kind of trap.
Becka is a medical student trained to diagnose, explain, and resolve. She knows how to name illness and how to move toward certainty. But as her own mental health begins to unravel, the frameworks she relies on no longer hold. Her thoughts slip, her perceptions feel unreliable, and the line between insight and distortion grows increasingly thin.
Fleeing her life, Becka travels thousands of miles to California, where she enters an intense relationship with a charismatic and enigmatic man known only as King. He offers connection at a moment when Becka feels unmoored. But as the relationship deepens, so does the novel's central tension: when your mind is changing, how do you know what is real, what is imagined, and what cannot be known at all?
Manic Kingdom resists tidy explanations and easy resolutions. Instead, it asks what happens when certainty becomes a false comfort - when answers feel precise but don't fit, like gloves pulled over the wrong hands. The novel suggests that peace does not always come from understanding or control, but from learning to tolerate ambiguity when clarity keeps slipping away.
Darkly funny, unsettling, and intimate, Manic Kingdom explores the fragility of mental health, the danger of overconfidence in one's own perceptions, and the uneasy truth that sometimes the only honest way forward is to stop demanding answers that cannot be given.
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