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Book Description
In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful emotions and African-American roots, showcasing her best writing yet.
Trina suffers from bipolar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Watching her child turn into a bizarre stranger, Keri searches for assistance through normal channels. She quickly learns that a seventy-two hour hold is the only help you can get when an adult child starts to spiral out of control. After three days, Trina can sign herself out of any program.
Fed up with the bureaucracy of the mental health community and determined to save her daughter by any means necessary, Keri signs on for an illegal intervention. The Program is a group of radicals who eschew the psychiatric system and model themselves after the Underground Railroad. When Keri puts her daughter’s fate in their hands, she begins a journey that has her calling on the spirit of Harriet Tubman for courage. In the upheaval that follows, she is forced to confront a past that refuses to stay buried, even as she battles to secure a future for her child.
Bebe Moore Campbell’s moving story is for anyone who has ever faced insurmountable obstacles and prayed for a happy ending, only to discover she’d have to reach deep within herself to fight for it.
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About Bebe Moore Campbell
Novelist Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a LA Times "Best Book of 2001." Her other works include the novel, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times notable book of the year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature, her memoir, Sweet Summer, Growing Up With and Without My Dad, and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. Her essays, articles and excerpts appear in many anthologies.
Ms. Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, which was published in September 2003. This book won the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. The book tells the story of how a little girl copes with being reared by her mentally ill mother. Ms. Campbell is a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and a founding member of NAMI-Inglewood.
Ms. Campbell's first play, "Even with the Madness," debuted in
As a journalist Ms. Campbell has written articles for "The New York Times Magazine," "The Washington Post," "The Los Angeles Times," "Essence," "Ebony," "Black Enterprise," as well as other publications. She is a regular commentator for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition."
Ms. Campbell was born and reared in
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“My wife was a phenomenal woman who did it her way,” said her husband Ellis Gordon, Jr. “She loved her family and her career as a writer. We enjoyed life together as a team and we will miss her immensely and will love her forever.”
Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon leaves to mourn her passing her husband of 22 years Ellis Gordon, Jr. (Los Angeles); her mother Doris C. Moore (Los Angeles); her two children, daughter Maia C. Campbell (Los Angeles), and son, Ellis Gordon III (Mitchellville, Maryland); one son-in-law, Elias Gutierrez (Los Angeles); one daughter-in-law, Monica E. Gordon (Mitchellville, Maryland); two granddaughters, Elizabeth Elisha Gutierrez and Zakariya Emon Gordon, Godmother Agnes Louard (New York) and a host of other relatives and close friends.
Author's Website: www.bebemoorecampbell.com
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