{"product_id":"i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden","title":"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman's struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Schizophrenias\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new afterword by the author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her \"normal\" life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath's \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e--a very different portrait of psychological breakdown--\u003ci\u003eI Never Promised You a Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.","brand":"Joanne Greenberg (Author), Esmé Weijun Wang (Foreword by), Joanne Greenberg (Afterword by)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42824227684579,"sku":"9780143136996","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9780143136996-us.jpg?v=1651512525","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}