Victoria Maiden grew up in a solid working-class neighborhood in the Bronx in the nineteen-fifties -- a time when America's future looked so innocent, so full of possibilities. The first member of her family to attend college, she looked forward to a career in publishing, law, or academia. But Fate had other plans, as painstakingly revealed in the pages of her debut work -- this unusual memoir which offers an intimate, personal look at what it is like to struggle with mental illness on a day-to-day basis.