This story is told alternately by Clara, who was a teenager in 1929 and was committed to an insane asylum by her wealthy parents for loving a poor immigrant and Izzy, a 17 year old in foster care who is trying to deal with the fact that her mother is in prison for shooting her father. As Izzy learns about Clara from her journal and letters, she deals with her own issues. Clara's story is sad and disturbing and it is even more disturbing to realize that people really were horribly mistreated in insane asylums during that time period. The book is intriguing and was hard to put down.
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