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Synopsis
Devastated by the recent death of her father and recovering from her own suicide attempt, Grace tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered world. Reprint. PW. K. VY.
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From School Library Journal
After the sudden death of the father she has blindly idolized and the loss of the confident, economically privileged lifestyle he represented, 16-year-old Grace Braun attempts suicide. Extended hospitalization follows; she undergoes shock treatments and various psychotherapies as she struggles to control hallucinations and the fear that her mind will again become "scrambled." Readers are introduced to Grace when she begins a journal for therapeutic purposes; at this point she is tentatively emerging from illness and is being encouraged to test the world outside the hospital. Throughout, she is supported by her diffident mother who has been forced to become family breadwinner and her daughter's link with reality. Grace, her mother, the psychiatric hospital staff, the well-intentioned teachers and students, and those who torment anyone who seems different--all are strong characterizations. The grim day-to-day life of the hospital and the heartbreaking, halting steps, forward and backward, in the process of recovery are painful testimony and are believable. Grace's intense relationship with the hostile, foul-mouthed Luke Wolfe, who is facing a murder charge for the mercy killing of his only friend, is melodrama that derails the story. Also, Bennett's off-and-on discussion of Grace's purported schizophrenia is confusing. In its better moments, this harrowing account may recall Joanne Greenberg's classic, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (NAL, 1977). --Libby K. White, Schenectady County Public Library, NY
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly
PW praised the author's "tenderness and remarkable insight" in describing the psychological struggles negotiated by his traumatized teenage heroine. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPoint
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0590456911
- ISBN 13 9780590456913
- BindingPaperback
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