Meg B. (nuttmeg) reviewed on 5/6/2007 + 29 more book reviews

I read this book with relish because thus far it is the only book I've found that talks of the difficulty (impossibility at times!) of getting loved ones treatment for a mental illness. An illness that makes them look, and even at times, sound like "normal" people, yet they have a disease that affects their behavior and judgement, one that wreaks havok if untreated, in the lives of both the patient themselves and everyone around them.
This book disappointed me in that it went off into a total fantasy about an underground, parallel treatment possibility that so many of us wish existed but does not.
No one but the relatives and loved ones of the mentally ill will be interested in this book and it gives us no hope, or even mild entertainment, really, though at times I identified with the mother and cheered her on.
I was saddened by Bebe Moore Campbell's death as I looked forward to mature work from her.

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