Strange Heaven
Author: Lynn Coady
Strange Heaven is tearfully hilarious, as funny and appalling as reality. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has come to Halifax from industrial Cape Breton, had her baby, and given it up for adoption. Transferred to the psych ward of the children’s hospital, she’s incarcerated with five seriously disturbed teenagers and a flock of wan children. She’s depressed, they say. Ap….Read More
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