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Two generations later, it’s in me, writes Jonathan Seidler in his memoir, It’s a Shame About Ray. It is at once poignant and compassionate, darkly funny and heartbreaking.

Jonathan Seidler: “Everyone cast bipolar as something wrong with me; it needed to be monitored, adjusted and continuously refined to bring this alleged chemical imbalance back to normal. ...