"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.