{"product_id":"9-highland-road-sane-living-for-the-mentally-ill-9780679761600","title":"9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill","description":"Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes us inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the backbone of America's mental health system. As it follows the progress and setbacks of residents, their families, and counselors and notes the embittered resistance their presence initially aroused in the neighborhood, 9 Highland Road succeeds in opening the locked world of mental illness. It does so with an empathy and insight that will change forever the way we understand and act in relation to that world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Winerip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.05h x 5.22w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679761600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/1995 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1995 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Winerip has been a staff writer, investigative reporter, national political correspondent, Metro reporter, and deputy Metro editor for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2000, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his expose in the Times Magazine about a mentally ill New York City man pushng a woman to her death on the subway. In 2001, he played a leading role on the team of reporters who won a Pulitzer for the series \"How Race Is Lived in America.\" His book on community mental health, \u003ci\u003e9 Highland Road\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the PEN nonfiction award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43144589115507,"sku":"9.78068E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_33ee2140-4404-4c7f-a6dc-9ce68200c29b.jpg?v=1750506515","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/9-highland-road-sane-living-for-the-mentally-ill-9780679761600","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}