Explores the relationship between the author and her mother, who spent time in a mental institution after attempting to commit suicide in 1958 as a result of the mental anguish over a love affair with another woman.
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In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own head and pulling the trigger. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. It would b...