Michelle Glass Caha is the author of The Truth About Honor, a short fiction novel published by Kindle Direct Press in 2018. Honor Wise, the main character, is a self-proclaimed liar, thief and addict. She is the victim of childhood molestation, is bulimic, a cutter, and diagnosed bipolar. We come to know Honor through current events and flashbacks. She fiercely wants to heal herself by chronicling her story. In and out of many different treatment centers, she gains a few true friends. Life becomes unmanageable, as her untreated illness begins to gain control. Eventually, she has a breakdown of sorts, while struggling to hold herself and her career together. She is hospitalized. Through this ordeal, she begins working with a psychiatrist who is a brilliant diagnostician and prescribes a series of medications that begin to help. She is in recovery,, and lives her life being grateful and cautiously optimistic.
This is Michelle Glass Caha’s first novel. She shares Honor’s issues and has been in therapy all her life. Michelle hopes the book will raise awareness about mental health and the importance of accurate diagnoses and prescription drugs. Michelle resides in Annapolis, Maryland, and continues to write. She is currently working on the sequel to Honor’s story, titled Honor Society.. Michelle is based in Annapolis, and currently writes a blog, bipolarladycoms.com, while managing to stay current on her favorite writer’s work (Stephen King)!