Mania by Lionel Shriver
Set in a near-future Anglophone world, a well-meaning mental-health rights crusade snowballs into an authoritarian orthodoxy that polices language, lionizes diagnoses, and punishes even trivial “insanist” slips. Following a wary academic whose offhand remark detonates a career and strains long-standing friendships, the satire tracks institutions as they escalate from performative compassion to enforced hypomania as a civic ideal. As reputations are sacrificed, families buckle, and public life grows ever more deranged, the story probes how groupthink and weaponized empathy can erode free expression and common sense.
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- Published
- 2024
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- American
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- Pages
- 300-350
- Original Language
- English
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