Hit home Never experienced the low lows in my home. But the high highs and the crash. Incredible insight but to me not entirely accurate. It is very rare to be both in their zone approaching mania and intimate at the same time. But the spiraling up and downs Dancing on broken glass is the perfect metaphor for living with this kind of illness You never know what you will find. I couldn't put it down and had constant tears running down my face In the midst of reading this novel, I thought 'that is a lot of crying being done', but aside from that, what a story.Raw, and so conscienciously real. Every detailed thought spoken through the diary of Mickey's words, and every observing detail spoken through the mind of Lucy. Ka Hancock has geniously written a simple story of actual human life, human love, and human voices that encompasses all true emotion whether you have experienced these scenarios or not. I immediately connected, the bipolar husband, the wife that stands in the gap for him between sanity and insanity. And I have experienced loss, but the loss of a child; and although loss is so different for different people it is close to connect to when you recognize the same secret cycle, "loss is it's own brand of insanity."The story is the struggle and fate of a marriage that, although is cheered and doubted at the same time, due to the couples mental and medical genetic disorders, accumulates into a miracle they had not intended. Mickey Chandler and Lucy Chandler are perfectly Imperfect with their careful marriage that is like "dancing on broken glass", until Lucy finds out she is pregnant. Fear, doubt and love all make an emotional outcome that kept me rooting for the best and hoping for a miracle. The ending had me crying and in all honesty ka hancocks genius writing shone the best through those last chapters of Mickeys voice.If you are a mother or married you will appreciate this sweet story
