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A Good Soldier
Ally Golden, author
A Good Soldier is a memoir by Ally
Golden, which focuses on the emotional
toll of growing up with a mentally ill
parent who eventually died by suicide.
The story follows Ally from birth to her
early thirties on her search for an identity
independent of her mercurial mother’s
influence. It is a timely, but not
opportunistic, case study of the insidious
ways the effects of mental illness can
span generations within a family.