Michael Greenberg’s wrote of his daughter’s decent and reemergence of manic
psychosis in the novel Hurry Down Sunshine. His account tells of the struggle that not only
Sally faced, but also of which the entire family endured in New York in the summer of 1996.
The sudden transformation of Greenberg’s daughter Sally begins at the incident in which
Greenberg watches as Sally throws an incredibly audible tantrum in the middle of the
street kicking and arguing with her father. Being a teenager he feels as if he has just lost
track of his daughter’s behavior and has not paid enough attention to her as she is growing
into her teenage years. However, after a very alarming night consisting of Sally attempting