title: Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
author:  Jessie Close 
description: "She has lived a life that even at her worst was spellbinding, and it's a definitely-worth-the-read memoir."<b><i><em>USA Today</em></i></b><br /><br />"It's obvious that this is no ordinary memoir...hard to put down...Close is telling her story to the world in hopes of removing the stigma from mental illness. It's a story well worth reading."<b><i><em>BookPage</em></i></b>
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  #  Copyright
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Leah Conolly
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  
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  #  About Leah Conolly
  
  
  Leah, or Leou as her friends call her is a South Dakota native. She describes
  herself as an affordable psychiatrist since she started reading books out of
  curiosity for the deeper exploration of the subconscious.
  
  
  She later studied psychology and criminology in NY, but she returned to her
  hometown when the family business was at risk of closing.
  
  
  Ten years later, she writes books to capture the feelings of every major life
  event she encountered so far. Thankfully, her romantic nature considers
  everything to be important resulting in immense writing activity! In her spare
  time, she 