Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine May - Mother's Day Issue | Page 74
Trina is eighteen and suffers from bi-polar disorder, making her
paranoid, wild, and violent. Frightened by her own child, Keri
searches for help, quickly learning that the mental health community
can only offer her a seventy-two hour hold. After these three days
Trina is off on her own again.
Fed up with the bureaucracy and determined to save her daughter by
any means necessary, Keri signs on for an illegal intervention known
as The Program, a group of radicals who eschew the psychiatric
system and model themselves after the Underground Railroad. 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.
“A tightly woven, well-written story about mothers and daughters,
highs and lows, ex-husbands and boyfriends.... Universally touching.”
—San Francisco Chronicle