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Best Selling Author of the Memoir ‘You're Too Young to Understand’ Liz Sjaastad
Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series .. On this episode, we talk with Best-Selling Author Liz Sjaastad, whose powerful memoir You're Too Young to Understand shares her story of growing up with, and later caring for, her parents. Her father was a quiet Russian immigrant and intellectual who struggled with alcohol, while her mother—an elegant, proper beauty—lived with the unacknowledged brain illness of schizophrenia.
Liz’s journey has gone far beyond the book. She is an advocate for mental health awareness, has served on the board of Touchstone Mental…
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