"Twenty-nine mementos before I turn thirty is a collection of poetry and writing highlighting the author's struggles with mental illness, life's unpredictability, and other themes. In an age of many battling mental illness, this work sets out to help others feel less alone and to foster dialogue between family, friends, and even strangers about the weird things we all go through." -- back cover.

"Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live"-- Like nearly one in five people, Haig suffers from depression. Here he explains how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend, and eventually learned to appreciate life all the more for it. Both inspiring to those...