12 Canadian books that describe living with mental illness
Erin Balser | CBC | Posted: August 30, 2017 3:07 PM | Last Updated: August 30, 2017
May 2-8 is Mental Health Week, a week dedicated to raising awareness about mental health issues in Canada. If you need a place to start, we recommend one of these 12 books that show what it's like to live with mental illness.
- This is Happy by Camilla Gibb
- Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
- Open Heart, Open Mind by Clara Hughes
- OCDaniel by Wesley King
- Drunk Mom by Jowita Bydlowska
- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucaneBenson, illustrated by Kelly Mellings
- Skim by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live by Ray Robertson
- What Disturbs Our Blood by James Fitzgerald
- Whale Music by Paul Quarrington