This novel is a poignantly told story about four women at a public psychiatric clinic on the day that the clinic's closing is announced. Each woman tells her own story in the first person singular voice as the day begins. The characters focus on a critical situation in their personal life -- for example, the social worker has recently learned that her husband is a transvestite -- as well as their perceptions of the other characters at The Charm City Community Mental Health Center. At the end of the day, the women are ...
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This novel is a poignantly told story about four women at a public psychiatric clinic on the day that the clinic's closing is announced. Each woman tells her own story in the first person singular voice as the day begins. The characters focus on a critical situation in their personal life -- for example, the social worker has recently learned that her husband is a transvestite -- as well as their perceptions of the other characters at The Charm City Community Mental Health Center. At the end of the day, the women are revisited. Each comes to a sense of resolution about her personal crisis, as well as about the turbulence caused in her life by the imminent closing of the clinic. The reader is left with a feeling of hopefulness and a new beginning.
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Very goodSigned by author. A couple of very light creases to the front panel of wraps, otherwise fine. Copy of review from the Johns Hopkins Medical Review laid in. Signed by author on title page. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 216 p. Audience: General/trade. Book contains the entire text of TS Eliot's "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" printed as a preface or epigram.
