In 1963, shortly before his assassination, President Kennedy promises Mariska Bakunin, a poverty-stricken Chicago Ukrainian child, he will find her father lost in one of the massive mental hospitals of mid-twentieth century America. Kennedy also promises the nation he will close these institutions as they have imploded into horror.Kegs Addams, wealthy daughter of a federal judge and a mother who was mentally-ill and disappeared when Kegs was six years...