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"