After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: psychiatric hospitals, fiction, mental illness, single-parent families, sisters, aunts, michigan, history, fiction