Sleepwalker

The Mysterious Makings and Recovery of a Somnambulist

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Mental Health, Biography & Memoir, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Author: Kathleen Frazier ISBN: 9781510700703
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Publication: September 8, 2015
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing Language: English
Author: Kathleen Frazier
ISBN: 9781510700703
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication: September 8, 2015
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English

The “harrowing” story of a woman’s twenty-year quest to escape the personal damage caused by “the tedium and terror of nights spent dreading sleep” (Booklist).
 
I came to in the middle of it, like waking inside a horror movie, silent scream and all. Eyes wide open. I was standing at an open window, staring at the dizzying curve of Riverside Drive, five floors below. I’d stopped, somehow, poised, about to jump.
 
Growing up a good girl in an Irish-American family full of drinkers and terrible sleepers, Kathleen Frazier was twelve when her seemingly innocent sleepwalking turned dangerous. By day she was a popular A+ student, the star of her high school musical. At night, she both longed for and dreaded sleep.
 
Frazier moved to Manhattan in the 1980s, hoping for a life in the theater but getting a run of sleepwalking performances instead. Efforts to abate her malady with drinking failed miserably. She became promiscuous, looking for nighttime companionship. Could a bed partner save her from flinging herself down a flight of stairs or out an open window? Exhaustion stalked her, and both rest and love were seemingly out of reach.
 
This is the journey Frazier illuminates in her intimate memoir, winner of the Independent Publisher’s Award for Best First Book Nonfiction . While highlighting her quest to beat her sleep terrors and insomnia, this is ultimately a story of health, hope, and redemption.
 
“A terrifying, compelling, and fascinating tale that takes us deep into the horrors of sleep walking and then reveals to us how the author managed to end a twenty-year nightmare.” **—**Ellen Burstyn, award-winning actress, writer, teacher

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The “harrowing” story of a woman’s twenty-year quest to escape the personal damage caused by “the tedium and terror of nights spent dreading sleep” (Booklist).
 
I came to in the middle of it, like waking inside a horror movie, silent scream and all. Eyes wide open. I was standing at an open window, staring at the dizzying curve of Riverside Drive, five floors below. I’d stopped, somehow, poised, about to jump.
 
Growing up a good girl in an Irish-American family full of drinkers and terrible sleepers, Kathleen Frazier was twelve when her seemingly innocent sleepwalking turned dangerous. By day she was a popular A+ student, the star of her high school musical. At night, she both longed for and dreaded sleep.
 
Frazier moved to Manhattan in the 1980s, hoping for a life in the theater but getting a run of sleepwalking performances instead. Efforts to abate her malady with drinking failed miserably. She became promiscuous, looking for nighttime companionship. Could a bed partner save her from flinging herself down a flight of stairs or out an open window? Exhaustion stalked her, and both rest and love were seemingly out of reach.
 
This is the journey Frazier illuminates in her intimate memoir, winner of the Independent Publisher’s Award for Best First Book Nonfiction . While highlighting her quest to beat her sleep terrors and insomnia, this is ultimately a story of health, hope, and redemption.
 
“A terrifying, compelling, and fascinating tale that takes us deep into the horrors of sleep walking and then reveals to us how the author managed to end a twenty-year nightmare.” **—**Ellen Burstyn, award-winning actress, writer, teacher

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