Secret Girl by Molly Bruce Jacobs

In the epilogue of this book, Jacobs makes reference to a devastating family tragedy that occurs after the book was finished, and after Googling her story about losing her son to hyenas during an African safari. Since then. it has been difficult to separate that story from the one she tells in her book. The book is about her sister who has hydrocephalus and is sent to live in an institution. Molly is not told about her sister until their teen years, and it is several years after that before she decides to meet her sister. Jacobs both critiques her parents and the mental health system while telling the story of her adult relationship with her sister.