Character Studies wih True Insight

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	• Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies Persimmon Blackbridge Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 1996 - 87 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Character Studies wih True Insight

This book is a study in character. It is about the struggle of people who have difficulty dealing with reality. This in its own way is true for every one of us. The book succeeds in showing the humanity in everyone even those who have been ostracized by society. The book flaws stem from the anger that the author genuinely feels with the people who are charged with providing care for the mentally ill. At times the portraits of these people descend into polemics. However this is teh only flaw on a genuinely good book.

By claiming that she's had experience at a child guidance clinic, Diane fakes her way into a counseling job at the Sunnybrook Institution for the Mentally Handicapped. Her experience, however, was as a patient, not as an employee. At Sunnybrook she finds the patients more lively, creative, and sympathetic than the tired, harried staff. And at home, her relationship with her girlfriend starts to suffer after Diane meets the wild, edgy Shirley-Butch at a bar. Writer and artist Persimmon Blackbridge uses her straightforward prose as well as images of her intense, funny sculptures and assemblages to convey the complexities of Diane's story. The narrative is supplemented by optional readings in the margins that suggest variant realities. Both the content and the innovative form of this book remind us that our stories are many-textured, that everyone has a different version of reality.

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