Review: A fascinating story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2012
In Crazy About You, author Randy Atwood tells a fascinating story about life growing up on the grounds of Larned State Hospital in Larned, Kansas. The protagonist is the teenaged son of the hospital's dentist, who is caught in that gray world between being a boy and being a man while he lives in a gray world between the asylum's inmates and the townies, the people in a small town who depend on the State Hospital for the income it provides, but also fear and loath the people housed there.The story involves brutal staff, many of whom are more twisted than those they are supposed to care for, a sad young woman who was victimized by her father and than by the system, unfortunate souls who need professional help that is seldom available to them, the local juvenile delinquent, and a couple of teenaged girls whose hormones are as out of control as only teenage hormones can be. The author brings them and others together to weave a story that will keep you turning the pages and that you won't soon forget.