India, Oct. 24 -- Sumitra watches as a priest chants the final mantras over her father's body. Her mother slips away unnoticed, climbs to the terrace and jumps to her death. In a single, shattering moment, the little girl's world is irrevocably altered, precipitating a fracture that runs through generations. Years later, Sumitra's youngest daughter watches as her mother swings between mania and depression, running half-naked through the streets, trying to harm herself. Shubha believes she may have escaped the family inheritance, but discovers that she hasn't. Traitor in the House is a searing account of growing up in a family shaped by bipolar disorder, and of what it means to inherit not just a condition, but a way of seeing and surviving the world. The unflinching memoir traces Shubha's journey through caregiving, denial, diagnosis and understanding, not just as a story of hardship, but one of triumph too....