Full name: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel

Authors: Joanne Greenberg, Hannah Green Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Young adult, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780312943592 9780451160317 0451160312

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself. "I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality." --Joanne Greenberg Similar books: My Sister from the Black Lagoon by Laurie Fox Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld The Luckiest Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron Sufficient Grace by Darnell Arnoult The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle Lowboy by John Wray Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer In This Sign by Joanne Greenberg Zoe Letting Go by Nora Price Dora by Lidia Yuknavitch Rx by Tracy Lynn Things I Shouldn't Think by Janet Ruth Young The Babysitter Murders by Janet Ruth Young Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson The Fog Within by Nick Shamhart Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick