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Stories about the mind in transition
The six stories originally appeared in regional or national publications. Here's a couple of examples: In "Mending Heads" a woman returns to Boston to confront the psychiatrist who betrayed her in her youth. In "Anushka" a marine biologist, confined by the Russians to a ship on the Bering Sea, refuses to help an assistant escape to the American shore. | |  | | President Kennedy's Promises
President Kennedy's Promises takes the reader on a road trip through a major American city, the mind of a young woman struggling to come of age, and the ties that bind the social classes.
p class="MsoNormal"> In 1963, shortly before his assassination, President Kennedy promises Mariska Bakunin, a poverty-stricken Chicago Ukrainian child, he will find her father lost in one of the massive mental hospitals of mid-twentieth century America. Kennedy also promises the nation he will close these institutions as they have imploded into horror. Kegs Addams, wealthy daughter of a federal judge and a mentally-ill mother who disappeared when Kegs was six years old, shows up in Mariska’s neighborhood as the Welfare worker. Kegs wants to esca |
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