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Book Review of The Best Awful

The Best Awful
The Best Awful
Author: Carrie Fisher
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Getting out of the mental hospital wasn't all Suzanne hoped it would be. There was no waiting throng of well-wishers, no ticker tape parade. She'd imagined she would go running through the gates of Shady Lanes with a spring in her step and a sparkle of certainty in her eye. As she passed by, a nurse would turn to a newly admitted patient and say proudly, "That's Suzanne Vale. We learned more from her during her stay with us than I think she ever could've gotten from us. Why, in the end, I don't think she's mentally ill so much as a kind of misunderstood eccentric, more unique than mad, really." Sane old...sane old...you know what I mean?