NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A tightly woven, well-written story about mothers and daughters, highs and lows, ex-husbands and boyfriends.... Universally touching." --San Francisco Chronicle

Trina is eighteen and suffers from bi-polar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Frightened by her own child, Keri searches for help, quickly learning that the mental health community can only offer her a seventy-two hour hold. After these three days Trina is off on her own again.

Fed up with the bureaucracy and determined to save her daughter by any means necessary, Keri signs on for an illegal intervention known as The Program, a group of radicals who eschew the psychiatric system and model themselves after the Underground Railroad. In the upheaval that follows, she is forced to confront a past that refuses to stay buried, even as she battles to secure a future for her child.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 06/01/2006
ISBN: 9781400033614
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.28w x 0.73d

Review Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2006 pg. 20