On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York State s foster-care system a sprawling, often slipshod web of boarding facilities, halfway houses, and paid surrogates that cares for almost 60,000 children. Life for Me Ain t Been No Crystal Stair is the story of what happened to Crystal and Daquan, as well as to Crystal s mother, who herself...
On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she...
We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination, until now, is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue, the collections and amateur sports to which we devote so much of our lives. The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer chronicles the amazing variety of ways in which we relax, compete with others and ourselves, and indulge some of our richest fantasies. Here are...
We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime....
This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia now reissued with a new postscript follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.
Sylvia Frumkin was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with...
This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia now reissued with a new postscript follows a flamboyant an...
