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Author:

Allen, Sandra (Nonfiction writer), author.

Title:

A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia / Sandra Allen.

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vii, 275 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Allen, Sandra--(Nonfiction writer)--Family.
Schizophrenics--Biography.
Mentally ill--United States--Biography.
Biographies.

Contents:

Genesis -- IM ROBERT -- The way society was -- THE CAGED WINDOW -- A blank -- ::WHEEEEE::: -- You can call it anything -- A LIVING ZOMBIE -- A real shocker -- FAMOUSE -- The right treatment -- GOD HAD ANSWERED -- Three days -- LOUISIANA -- Any other way -- THE FANNZE -- What a shame -- THE SERVICE -- The story of Annadonia -- TABBACO ROAD -- The fifth portrait -- PARADISE.

Summary:

"Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. As a child, she had been told he was "crazy," that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than she had been alive, and what little she knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed her his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps, a stream of error-riddled sentences over sixty, single-spaced pages, the often incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a "true story" about being "labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic," and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise, Allen translates her uncle's autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Lacing Bob's narrative with chapters providing greater contextualization, Allen also shares background information about her family, the culturally explosive time and place of her uncle's formative years, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1501134035
9781501134036

OCLC:

(OCoLC)989963798

LCCN:

2017034690

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

AIPC937 -- Karl Miles Lecompte Memorial Library (Corydon)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BBPC251 -- Roy R. Estle Memorial Library (Dallas Center)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

RUPC135 -- Manson Public Library (Manson)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)