The Yellow Toothbrush

A poetic memoir by a woman whose grown daughter, Nora, during an episode of postpartum psychosis, killed her three-year-old son. She attempted to kill herself but did not succeed. Instead of getting mental help, she got twenty-five years in prison (and a judge who called her "evil"). The grieving grandmother writes the story with deep compassion and forgiveness, in a collection of linked, exquisitely beautiful but totally accessible--page-turning, in fact--lyrical pieces.