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An unquiet mind full text7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() As a teenager, however, things began to change: her father left the Air Force for a job at the Rand Corporation, in California, but his mood swings and esoteric passions grew worse, giving way to alcoholism and ultimately costing him his job and marriage. Nevertheless, she always felt support from her parents, and she believes that if she was given to moods herself as a child, they were likely alleviated by her comfortable existence. ![]() Her mother, the daughter of a professor of physics, was unintellectual but a warm, friendly, popular conversationalist her father was given to impulsive passions, and though she has fond memories of her father while young, recalls that those wild passions frequently gave way to more somber periods. Jamison spent the majority of her childhood moving around the world due to her father’s status as an Air Force pilot and scientist despite this, Jamison considers her youth to have been one of relative comfort and stability. ![]() Part 1 describes her childhood and the development of her mood swings as a teenager. The book is divided into four parts, loosely focused on different periods of her life, although the narrative structure is not always in strict chronological order. ![]()
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