lmbradley 's review for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

4.5

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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Excellently written and read by the author. I appreciated how Hylton wove in stories of her family’s experiences to contextualize the archival research from Crownsville. Sometimes it was hard to read about so much suffering but the insights made it worthwhile and moving.