A Blue So Dark
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme - and my mind is free verse.
Author: Holly Schindler
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Date: 2010
When talented artist Grace Ambrose decides to stop taking her medication, it falls to her fifteen year old daughter Aura to care for her as schizophrenia takes hold of her mind. A promise to keep the illness secret, an absent father and that the fear that creativity equals crazy – therefore her own art could someday drive her mad – all complicate Aura’s situation further in this tightly wound novel. With a short time frame, fast pace and almost overpowering atmosphere, A Blue So Dark shows the deterioration of an unwell, unmedicated mind and the fears held by the children of a mentally ill parent.
Date: 2010
When talented artist Grace Ambrose decides to stop taking her medication, it falls to her fifteen year old daughter Aura to care for her as schizophrenia takes hold of her mind. A promise to keep the illness secret, an absent father and that the fear that creativity equals crazy – therefore her own art could someday drive her mad – all complicate Aura’s situation further in this tightly wound novel. With a short time frame, fast pace and almost overpowering atmosphere, A Blue So Dark shows the deterioration of an unwell, unmedicated mind and the fears held by the children of a mentally ill parent.
Recommended for: 14-18 years
If you like this, try: Breathless by Jessica Warman
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