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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
I loved Hannah Greens portrayal of those with mental illnesses especially for the time it was written in (1964) and how she presents them as real people realistically delving into their thoughts and the reasons behind their actions honestly making me wonder if some of it was personal to her as well. The ending wasnt entirely satisfying but it was realistic and set a hopeful tone but overall a nice book with stunning grotesque imagery but i probaby wouldnt read it again honestly.
Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Graphic: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Antisemitism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria
“Creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.”
“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”
“Did any two people, even in the World, speak the same language?”
“And in a slow, oncoming way, widening from a beginning, it appeared to Deborah that she would not die. It came upon her with a steady, mounting clarity that she was going to be more than undead, that she was going to be alive. It has a sense of wonder and awe, great joy and trepidation. “When will it begin?”
she said to the gradual night. It came to her that it was already beginning.”
“Now that she held this tremendous but growing conviction that she was alive, she began to be in love with the new world.”
“Sometimes you have to fight what won’t yield and put yourself where it’s safe to be crazy.”
“She looked out into the congregation on Sunday and wondered if they ever thanked God for the light in their minds, for friends, for cold and pain responsive to the laws of nature, for enough depth of sight into these laws to have expectations, for friends, for the days and nights that follow one another in stately rhythm, for the sparks that fly upwards, for friends….Did they know how beautiful and enviable their lives were?”
Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis