Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story (48 page)
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Authors: Mac McClelland
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Most of this book was written at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto, and thanks to all the supportive geniuses who work there, particularly Caroline Paul, for that unparalleled environment. Residencies at the Mesa Refuge were invaluable in writing both of my books. I’m also much obliged for the hospitality of Ken Fulk and his Durham Ranch, Don Hazen, and Jon Pult of the inimitable Sugar Shack.
A final and repeated thanks to the experts and sources, listed in the bibliography, whom Sydney Brownstone and I harangued over months and in some cases years while trying to get the details right.
And another to my magnificent husband, who is my joy and my universe.
I am lucky in countless ways, but one of them is to have been able to go through the process I did—and to share it. So thank you.
Mac McClelland
is the author of
For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question
. She has written for Reuters,
Rolling Stone
,
Mother Jones
,
The New York Times Magazine
, and
The New York Times Book Review
, among other publications, and won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Online News Association, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Association for Women in Communications. Her work has also been nominated for two National Magazine Awards for Feature Writing and has been anthologized in the
Best American Magazine Writing 2011, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
, and
Best Business Writing 2013
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MAC M
C
CLELLAND
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CONTENTS
IRRITABLE HEARTS.
Copyright © 2015 by Mac McClelland. All rights reserved. For information, address Flatiron Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Some names in this book have been changed or omitted.
Some of the content, reporting, and scenes in this book originally appeared in
GOOD
and
Mother Jones
magazines.
Cover designed by Keith Hayes
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
McClelland, Mac.
Irritable Hearts: a PTSD love story / Mac McClelland.—First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-250-05289-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-05349-7 (e-book)
1. McClelland, Mac—Mental Health. 2. Post-traumatic stress disorder—Patients—United States—Biography. 3. Journalists—United States—Biography. 4. Earthquakes—Psychological aspects. 5. Man-woman relationships. I. Title.
RC552.P67M33 2015
616.85'210092—dc23
2014034163
e-ISBN 9781250053497
First Edition: February 2015
