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In her new memoir, While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence, Meg Kissinger delves into her charmingly rambunctious family’s seldom acknowledged struggles with mental illness. Set against the backdrop of Chicago’s North Shore suburbia in the 1960s and ’70s, during a time before many people had a working knowledge of mental illness, Kissinger invites us into the family home.