"Susannah Cahalan, the bestselling author of Brain on Fire, is back with another riveting true story of madness and the mental health system. In the 1970s, Dr. David Rosenhan convinced seven sane people to join him in committing themselves to mental hospitals as patients and trying to get out on their own. What begins as an inspiring and daring story of experimentation darkens and twists as Cahalan closes in on a story shrouded in mystery--who were these seven 'pseudopatients' in Rosenhan's groundbreaking study, and what really happened to them? The Great Pretender is not-to-be-missed narrative nonfiction."
--Megan Bell, Underground Books, Carrollton, GA