Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Susan Sheehan
Summary
A detailed and compassionate year-long study of a single patient's journey through the American mental health system, documenting her struggle with schizophrenia.
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Historical Context & Significance
Sheehan utilized a "deep immersion" style of journalism, spending hundreds of hours with her subject to expose the failures of deinstitutionalization.