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ADMISSIONS novel by Jennifer Sowle

$ 19.95 USD

Admissions is the story of Luanne Kilpi, a young mother hollowed out by the death of her only son.  Just before Thanksgiving, l968, Luanne is fished from the Saginaw River, and she has no idea how she got there.  Within two days, she faces the inconceivable—life inside the loony bin.   A suicide risk, she is committed to the disturbed ward where she meets five patients, tossed together by bad luck, who provide an unlikely lifeline.  Over one haunting year, Luanne must face the meaning of grief and loss, and the possibility of love and friendship.   

 

Admissions  is an unflinching look at a woman’s fight for recovery inside an asylum that looms large in a small northern town.  Carl Reinbold, an attendant for over forty years, gives a glimpse into the hospital’s provocative history.  He knows the old asylum holds many secrets.  Shining a light on the contradictions of the mental hospital of the sixties, the novel illuminates the hopes and hazards of psychiatry, the thin line between heartache and insanity.

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ADMISSIONS                    AVAILABLE   JUNE, 2010                       Price 19.95  USD