GROWING UP BORDERLINE: A Mother's Memoir is a candid, compelling look at one family's journey through mental illness. With brutal honesty and in readable style, the author, Linda Burch, gives detailed insight into the real world of borderline personality disorder, or BPD. Her story is an engrossing one for anyone who has a friend or relative with a mental disorder, but it appeals as well to general readers who would like a glimpse into the disorienting and disorganized disorder called BPD.