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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Cahalan, Susannah
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literary fiction medical memoir past tense first POV ~314 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

traumatic visceral unsettling

A literary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 5
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 60
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count78,530
Page count~314 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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