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This one has been on my TBR forever, ever since I read What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman.
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This one has been on my TBR forever, ever since I read What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman.
When Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995, more than 400 suitcases belonging to former patients was discovered in the attic; separated by gender and the alphabet. This book offers a look into the lives of some of those patients. Fascinating history of unique people. Lots of sadness for the many decades some people spent living in a mental hospital. #MountTBR
A coworker recommended this one. Not too far of a drive from my home. I also work in mental health so it‘s very interesting!
I found this book in a Secondhand bookstore, the title' The lives they left behind ' made me curious... And what a breathtaking book it has turned out to be!
This is a transfixing and deeply sad book, and its genesis is breathtaking: the discovery of hundreds of suitcases in an attic of the abandoned Willard State Hospital in New York, and taken to the New York State Museum. .
Must Read!
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I have been to the library more since my kids started school a month ago than I have in the last year! This was my second trip this week. I walk them to school, walk over to Starbucks, then cross the street and hit up the library. 9/11 has made me sentimental and introspective, so I grabbed two 9/11 books. One is a graphic novel so that's bound to fail, but it is an adaption of the actual commissioner's report. And I have @Kaye to thank for book 3