This book was a little strange, but decent.
It deals with a Jewish lady who has suddenly stops talking and is taken to a mental hospital by her mother. She was living in a ghetto in Europe pre-Holocaust. I think that might have been the reason I was interested in the book: I was currently teaching about WWII at the time...
The story involves various characters, patients and doctors at the hospital as well as the nurses that are charged with caring for them (all of them who are secretly nasty to each other AND the patients). It was interesting to see the different afflictions the people at the hospital had (including a man who insisted on dressing in women's clothing and acting like a woman) and considering the time period they were living it. Today, a lot of those things go on without a second thought but back then, it STILL existed but was far more scandalous. It really makes you think about things...
A decent book, not sure if I would suggest it to anyone or read it again. It was OK.
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