This deeply engrossing novel is a fictionalized account of the life struggles of patients and doctors inside a mental hospital. Inspired by the authors own experience Daniels was hospitalized in the 1950s while suffering from anorexia nervosa this book dares to expose the troubled lives of both the patients and their caretakers. In a novel of unusual scope...[Daniels] presents controversial themes with compassion and understanding. Greensboro Daily...