Book description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this “gripping” (TechCrunch), “eye-opening” (Gayle King, Oprah Daily) memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship, the co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything.
“Arrestingly candid . . . the most powerful book I've read on…
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1 author picked Burn Rate as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a book I literally could not put down—I read it voraciously over just a few days to the exclusion of everything except my most pressing obligations. I ran the gamut of emotions while reading it—sadness, fear, anger, and, ultimately, joy and hope.
Andy’s fierce, gripping, intimate, and refreshingly honest memoir helped me truly understand what it takes to come to grips with mental illness (in his case, bipolar disorder) and the crucial role his most important relationships played (and play to this day) in successfully living with his condition.
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