Epilepticon Day 14: Can you recommend a good book with epilepsy representation?
Here’s a few of my favorites:
The Idiot by Fydor Dostoyevsky is an absolute classic for epilepsy representation. Compelling characters, tragic story, all with a focus on an epileptic character living in 1800′s Russia
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee. A historical coming-of-age drama with a good queer love story
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems by Molly McCully Brown. A series of poems illustrating what life was like for women living inside Virginia’s Epileptic Colony in the 1930s. It gets pretty horrifying and I would highly recommend having tissues at the ready. Probably my favorite book on this list.
A Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald. An autobiography looking into Eichenwald’s experiences with his epilepsy and the numerous terrible neurologists and academic officials he had to suffer through
Meena Meets Her Match by Karla Manternach. A very quick read, this children’s book nonetheless has a lot of optimism and heart to it. It looks at the experiences of a third grader recently diagnosis with epilepsy.
Hero by Perry Moore. A gay superhero drama, the main character has some unspecified form of epilepsy
