This oftentimes comedic memoir explodes with resilience. Marion Hoffman Koenig kicks aside limitations, embraces magic, and strives to replace loss with kindness. Can death be morphed into life? This memoir first captures the child’s eye view of death, the magic of a child's experience. This is balanced against growing adult understanding in the tradition of David Copperfield and Jane Eyre . After enduring more than her share of death and sickness as a young girl, Koenig takes the reader on a jam-packed adventure with exciting, dangerous, and sometimes other-worldly experiences of a young woman coming into her own and making her way in 1980s New York City. Encounters with boldface names and world-historical events add a poetic, time-capsule charm to the narrative. ______________________________________ “Marion Koenig could make walking down a flight of stairs intriguing!” – Ralph Gomory, Winner of the National Medal of Science Author Marion Hoffman Koenig's memoir, Don't Say Crazy To Me, is life-affirming.Marion is a respected mental health advocate and a well-known champion of animal rights. While living in England, preparing for a One-Woman Art Show at the St. James's Club in London, Marion took time off to walk 400 miles with Sir Ian Botham OBE to persuade him to organize a celebrity cricket match for MIND (the National Association for Mental Health, UK). The celebrity match was successfully played out in London. Returning to her native New York City, Marion's design appeared in Shape and Prevention magazines. Marion lives in New York City and is currently working on three TV mini-series.