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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. In the spring of 1974, I was eight years old. Every morning I walked about a mile to school, through city neighborhoods and crossing three busy streets, including one six-lane highway. Every afternoon I walked back. Now, my mother and I just shake our heads at the folly of it. But it was a different world back then. A safer world where a little girl could walk to school without the fear of drugs, violence or being snatched by strangers. In the spring of 1974, Virginia Holman was also eight years old, and one morning while I was probably tripping blithely towards school, she and her little sister were packed into the family car by her mother. But while everything was right in my world, young “Gingie” could sense that things were not right in hers. Her mother was happy, ecstatic even, about the prospect of going to the family cottage on the Virginia Peninsula. She seemed filled with a sense of mission, which made sense since she believed that she had been inducted into a secret army and given orders to turn the cottage into a field hospital in preparation for an imminent war. As I would have been negotiating the six-lane highway that lay between me and my second grade class, Gingie was negotiating with a mother held in the thrall of a full-blown psychotic episode. For the next three years, while family, friends and neighbors turned a blind eye to the situation, she helped her mother make preparations, endured “night maneuvers,” and took care of the baby sister her mother had all but forgotten. Her mother’s mission required that all the windows in the cottage be painted black. Gingie’s mission was to cope with her mother’s paranoid and delusional reality. . .read full review I thought this book was extremely interesting and also very saddening because, as it is written by the family’s older daughter, the reader gets a glimpse into how schizophrenia affects both the person who is diagnosed with the condition and the people who love and surround the individual. The daughter finds that she is able to connect with her mother less and less until she is forced to choose between having nothing to share with her mother or being a part of her mother’s delusions. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In 1975, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia National Bank, a second kidnapping took place far from the glare of the headlines. Virginia Holman's mother, in the thrall of psychosis, spirited her two daughters to a cottage on the Virginia Peninsula, painted the windows black, and set up the house as a MASH unit for a secret war. A war that never came. The family -- captive to her mother's schizophrenia and a legal system that refused to intervene -- remained there for more than three years. "What sets this book apart," the Hartford Courant observed, "is Virginia's voice...brave, smart, tough." Reviewers nationwide have praised Holman's "riveting," "endearing," and "wryly humorous" story of a young girl caught in the whirlwind of madness -- a girl who chooses a brainwashed heiress as her role model. Holman's memoir vividly and brilliantly evokes the interior worlds of the sane and the insane and the delicate membrane in between. An essential exploration of identity, captivity, and love, Rescuing Patty Hearst will inspire readers' faith in the resilience of one family's spirit to survive and thrive even in the direst of circumstances. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Mental diseases are a traumatic illness for all who are involved.
But, I am glad I read this book, it helped me so much to be more tolerant of others because you don't know what their life consists of.
Thanks Virginia Holman for sharing your story and thanks to GGirls for putting this in one of your episodes to make me curious about it! ( )