The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman\'s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias , and a new afterword by the author A Penguin Classic After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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A semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath\'s The Bell Jar --a very different portrait of psychological breakdown-- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.
Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her normal life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge.
With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago.
The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman\'s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias , and a new afterword by the author A Penguin Classic After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia
