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60 Must-Read Books of the Summer

The Hospital Always Wins

By Issa Ibrahim

Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288

Madness led Ibrahim to believe his mother was possessed and then kill her during an exorcism. His subsequent 20-year struggle to regain his sanity as a patient in a Cuckoo's Nest–esque asylum roars to a searing, poignant climax.

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