How We Got Barb Back The Story of My Sister's Reawakening after 30 Years of Schizophrenia

Name: How We Got Barb Back The Story of My Sister's Reawakening after 30 Years of Schizophrenia
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ISBN: 9781573244770

ISBN-10: 1573244775

ISBN-13: 9781573244770

Edition: 2010

Authors: Margaret Hawkins, Carolyn Spiro

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In the mid-1960s, Barb Hawkins, a talented, vivacious young woman from suburban Chicago, met and married an Iraqi graduate student and, after his unsuccessful search for a teaching position in the U.S., moved with him to Basra where he'd been offered a job at the university. When they returned for a visit three years later, she was clearly not well, and he had run out of resources to help her. She wouldn't allow herself to be touched. She would mutter angrily and stay in her room. She was in torment, and so was her traumatized family. Her parents, utterly out of their depth, never sought help for her after her first refusal to go to a psychiatrist. They simply loved and protected her as…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date: 9/1/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Margaret Hawkins is the author of two previous novels, A Year of Cats and Dogs and How to Survive a Natural Disaster , and a memoir about her sister, After Schizophrenia: The Story of My Sister's Reawakening . She also writes for the Chicago Sun-Times and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Author of Divided Minds.