Rescuing Patty Hearst (Simon & Schuster; 2003)
Virgina Holman's mother suffers from schizophrenia. Her mind is not beautiful. But Holman's new memoir Rescuing Patty Hearst, described as "hair-raisingly poignant," by Publishers Weekly, is a luminous account of a daughter forever marked by her mother's illness and one family's struggle to love and care for a desperately ill woman in a mental health care system more concerned with protecting a patient's "rights" rather than halting the course of her dangerous disease. Join the Durham resident as she shares the madness behind her memoir in this illuminating episode.
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