In 2021, a woman has a psychotic break. She goes to bed one night in her apartment and awakens the next morning in a holding cell at her local jail with no idea of what happened or how she got there. She fights for five and a half months to have her mental health evaluated before she is finally released. Over those five and a half months she learns what it's like to be in jail, the crime she committed that she doesn't remember, what the other women in jail are like, and what life is like on the other side of the world she never knew existed. Through it all she finds her way back to her faith in God even as she loses everything else in her life (her job, her apartment, her identity). She learns what a "dark night of the soul" truly is, and how to make it throguh when you think you can't make it through anymore. Her poems, journal entries, and cartoons drawn on scraps of paper from her cell make up the pages of this irreverant and unconventional memoir.
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I've heard from a reliable source that the synopsis of the book should only be one sentence long, so here's my attempt at that, does it sound ok?
Culled from poems, cartoons, and journal entries written on scraps of paper in her cell, this irreverent memoir tells the story of a woman who went to bed one night and woke up the next morning in jail, with no memory of how she got there.
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