Fig

By Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Family life, fiction, Depression & Mental Illness, Families, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence, Farm life, Parents, Schizophrenia, Social Issues, Family, Self-destructive behavior, Mental illness, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Depression & Mental Illness, Self-destuctive behavior, Schools, fiction, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents, JUVENILE FICTION, Children's fiction, Adolescence, Juvenile fiction, History, Kansas, fiction, Schools, Mothers and daughters, Family life, Mental illness, fiction

Description: In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.