Love and other gods - Michael Nangla

Michael Nanglawas the first of his family to be born in England and has always been torn between two cultures; that of his mother's homeland and that of the country he grew up in.

Finding freedom for the first time at university, Michael discovered an exciting world ofloveand lust. But whenloveturned to heartbreak one too many times, Michael's world shattered.Vivid hallucinations forced him down a road he had never been on before; through hospitalisation to cures from mystics.

His identity fractured, Michael kept trying to find himself, turning to family, friends andlovefor answers.

A brutally honest look at what it means to be bipolar and bicultural,LoveandOtherGodsis a journey through the mind of one man as he learns to define himself.

Michael was born in Leeds in 1967, to parents who had immigrated from India to Britain. He read Philosophy and Economics at university and graduated with an MA in Continental Philosophy. He had his first psychotic breakdown in 1992, from which he made a full recovery. Michael went on to work as a researcher and radio producer at the BBC for more than a decade until a second psychotic episode from which he was diagnosed with bipolar II. Love and Other Gods is his debut.