jjares reviewed on 4/7/2021 + 3284 more book reviews

Children without a stable home environment have a difficult time making a safe transition to adulthood. Marilyn's Mom was not emotionally or physically there and then was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Marilyn and her mother bounced from foster situations until Marilyn married at 16. It was the first stability she'd experienced, and then her husband joined the Merchant Marines (leaving her alone during WWII).

To me, when Marilyn found out that she got the diagnosis of schizophrenia, she would emotionally have gone into a downward spiral. She'd seen how her mother lived and suffered from that diagnosis. And once Marilyn spent any time in the psychiatric ward, she would see no way out of her circumstances. This story is tragic.

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