\u003cdiv\u003eA memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, \u003cI\u003eThe Lily Pond\u003c/I\u003e is equally searching in its exploration of the psyche's resources in healing and reknitting that story.\u003c/div\u003e