Memoirs from the Asylum

What is it like to work inside a state hospital or to be a
patient in such a hospital? What is it like to live inside the
mind of such a patient?
This tragi-comedic novel takes the reader inside the asylum,
inside the worlds of three central characters: a narrator
who has taken refuge from his fears of the world, a
psychiatrist whose own life has been damaged by his father's
depression, and a catatonic schizophrenic whose world is
trapped inside a crack in the wall opposite her bed.
This is the interwoven story of their lives, a story that
includes love, sexuality, violence, deaths, celebrations,
circuses, and surprising twists.