Melissa Bond

Dec 28, 2023 | artdaily.com | Claire-Louise Bennett |Tess Gunty |Melissa Bond |Peter Baker

NEW YORK, NY.- “You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” humorist Will Rogers once said — which tells you he wasn’t a book publishing executive. In that world, the paperback edition is the second chance, an opportunity to market a book at a lower price and, in many cases, with new cover imagery aimed at new audiences. Goals can include getting big-box stores to display the book, Instagram browsers to pause before swiping, or readers to rethink what’s between those covers.

Oct 20, 2023 | nytimes.com | Melissa Bond

In WHILE YOU WERE OUT: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence (Celadon, 303 pp., $30), Meg Kissinger’s family of eight siblings and two exhausted parents looks, at first, like a robust, love-infused household in the North Shore neighborhood of Chicago. But as early as age 5, Kissinger remembers her beloved mother disappearing for days at a time. By her 40s Kissinger has lost two siblings to suicide, and her alcoholic mother has survived several attempts.

Oct 20, 2023 | nyti.ms | Melissa Bond

In WHILE YOU WERE OUT: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence (Celadon, 303 pp., $30), Meg Kissinger’s family of eight siblings and two exhausted parents looks, at first, like a robust, love-infused household in the North Shore neighborhood of Chicago. But as early as age 5, Kissinger remembers her beloved mother disappearing for days at a time. By her 40s Kissinger has lost two siblings to suicide, and her alcoholic mother has survived several attempts.

Aug 1, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Melissa Bond |Brittany Bunzey

By Melissa Bond / August 1, 2023 at 5:05 am Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos By Melissa Bond In Stock Online Paperback $17.99 Melissa Bond’s extraordinary memoir of an accidental addiction and what it took to recover. The writing here is propulsive and vivid; you’re with the author through some truly nightmarish events, most especially...