"Nutterville...and Other True Stories of Coping with Mental Illness" (edit title/settings)

Synopsis---“Nutterville…and Other True Stories of Coping with Mental Illness”
Faye Ellen Kufahl---author

Nutterville is a remarkably compassionate and tender memoir written by Social Worker Faye Ellen Kufahl, who had the experience, as a young girl, of seeing her older sister stricken by the disease of paranoid schizophrenia.
Kufahl also recalls stories of her childhood in a rural area, and what it was like overcome odds that were not exactly in her favor. Growing up during the 1950s with neither running water nor an inside bathroom is described in a humorously sly, ya-gotta-laugh-for-crying style, as is her education through the eighth grade at one of Wisconsin’s last one-room schoolhouses. She invites you to share it all with her, as she makes discoveries and triumphs over the roots of ignorance and pain.
Her “adventures” in the second half of the book take the reader to life inside a shelter for abused and battered women, where Faye found herself at age 55.
These stories are a candidly optimistic, dealing with family dynamics on a subject that is often taboo in our society to discuss openly. Nutterville neither begins nor ends on a negative note---Faye weaves stories that are seductively alluring, having the power to change reader’s hearts. Her journey is bound to become a thread woven into the fabric of many lives and homes as she spins her tale of love between sisters.
Nutterville will empower readers to fight against the stigma and isolation that may happen in struggling with a mental illness. No one should be alone; it takes a society to cope---let us work toward making it so. That is the clear message of this book.