Title: Mark Z. Danielewski's The whalestoe letters
Description: "Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Mothers and sons, Mentally ill women, Psychiatric hospital patients, Fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, Ohio, fiction, Fiction, psychological