http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/books/review/01wals.html?ex=1144558800&en=c6ec3e8c1c9561b2&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS

 

This is a review in the New York Times of

HALFWAY HOUSE
By Katharine Noel
367 pages. Atlantic Monthly Press. $23.

 

A first novel - "Initially, after a hospital stay, Angie lands in a residential therapeutic community on a working farm in eastern New York, where she forks hay and tends to the cows. Soon she returns home but then moves into a halfway house for the mentally ill. Eventually, Angie shares a worn-out Victorian with a group of transient young people. (None of her housemates are aware of her history of illness.) In between these different living arrangements, Angie bounces in and out of hospitals. Through the filter of each family member, the reader discovers how each character copes with Angie's precarious journey"