Ms. Laura Freedman

Laura Freedman is a young woman who has been a teacher for a number of years in a small dusty border town in Texas. She decides, for reasons only known to her, that it would be a great idea to stop taking her bipolar medication in November. She experiences a nervous breakdown and has to be institutionalized for a time. While there, she must deal with her own journey toward healing as well as discover and deal with some of her deepest held secret wounds.

Laura is a very sensitive, educated English teacher, whom the reader learns was always altruistic. She found her mother dead in the garage (she hung herself) when Laura was four. Diagnosed at some point with bipolar disorder, Laura managed her disorder quite well for many years.

Her relationship with her father was distant and rocky. He was a bitter, ultra conservative...