Gracie & Albert - Gillespie, Cheryl Grant
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Gracie & Albert is a portrait of a young couple in 1948 in rural Maine. Gracie is struggling with four months of treatment for mental illness in a public psychiatric hospital. Dealing with the guilt of having his wife involuntarily committed to this hospital, Albert is holding himself and their two young sons together on the outside. The reader is tossed back and forth between the mid-twentieth century mental health institution, primitive by today's standards, and an outside community rife with intolerance and void of support for patients' families. The story is based on the author's parents…mehr

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Gracie & Albert is a portrait of a young couple in 1948 in rural Maine. Gracie is struggling with four months of treatment for mental illness in a public psychiatric hospital. Dealing with the guilt of having his wife involuntarily committed to this hospital, Albert is holding himself and their two young sons together on the outside. The reader is tossed back and forth between the mid-twentieth century mental health institution, primitive by today's standards, and an outside community rife with intolerance and void of support for patients' families. The story is based on the author's parents in their early twenties, the author's recollection of her mother's stories, and actual records from Augusta State Hospital.
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Autorenporträt
Cheryl Grant Gillespie was born and has lived her entire life in Maine. After a forty-year career as a teacher, she starting writing memoir and creative non-fiction. She also contriubtes to a local magazine. She is proud to be one of five authors who penned an anthology entitled Compassionate Journey: Honoring Our Mothers' Stories, which was a finalist for the Foreword, Next Generation, and Book Fest Indie Awards in womens' and family relationship issues in 2019. Cheryl is a wife, mother, and grandmother.