Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Daniel H. Wilson Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat

Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat

chronicling the dramatic events primarily through in-the-moment letters and diaries of those who were there

masterful novel follows three generations of a Christian family in Kerala

2024 Skipping Stones Honor Awards Winner

Various textured papers are included alongside images of the prints

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Daniel H. Wilson Melisto is a spoiled aristocratIn the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page turning account of one of the nation's last segregated asylums a book that left me breathless (Clint Smith). For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers through the ninety three year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still