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    Going Widdershins

    By Sherrye Cohn

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    Sometimes insanity is the sanest response to an unbearable reality.

    It’s 1958 when Emilena Lamb, with no prior history of medical or mental problems, arrives at Bridgeton Psychiatric Hospital in a catatonic stupor. Sam Atkins, the psychiatrist who admits her, is baffled. Emilena’s husband insists she’s always been the perfect wife and that theirs is a very happy home, which interviews with friends and family seem to support.

    So what happened to Emilena?

    When she doesn’t improve during her first month in the hospital, she’s transferred to Summerland, a residential facility for “female hysterics” run by the sensuous and eccentric May Manley. Here, the laws which govern modern medicine do not apply, as May employs such therapies as lunar observation and birding to help her “guests re-root in the Earth.” When Sam, desperate to heal Emilena, finds himself caught between May’s unorthodox yet apparently effective approach to healing and the invasive, potentially harmful procedures prescribed by his colleagues, he’s forced to question the beliefs on which he has built his entire professional and personal life.

    Fortunately, the magic of Summerland isn’t limited to its patients ...

    Going Widdershins is a moving, bittersweet tale of mystery, love, yearning, and transformation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSherrye Cohn
    Release dateMay 28, 2018
    ISBN9780463361368
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    Sherrye Cohn

    Sherrye Cohn has been a professor of art history and a museum lecturer. She holds advanced degrees in art history and has written for academic journals. She's also the mother of two, a djembe drummer, and an ecofeminist. She lives with her husband in the lush Sonoran Desert of Tucson, Arizona. In both her fiction and nonfiction Sherrye writes about art and nature, the poles between which she lives.

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