By the author fo the Award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire, a novel inspired by the author's work on a psychiatric ward. When Dr. Joanna Bereza tries to stop an arrogant psychiatrist from shocking her patients--a mute young mother suspected of trying to kill her baby and a feisty old woman who's been shocked too many times--she risks not only her career but also the love of her life. Joanna's obsession to do what's right blinds her to problems at home. Complicating matters is the seductive senior resident who looks more like a rock star than an aspiring shrink.

When Dr. Joanna Bereza, a passionate intern, challenges Dr. Myron Eisenstadt, her supervising psychiatrist, on his aggressive use of shock treatment, she risks not only her career but also her marriage. It doesn't help that she's working alongside a seductive intern, who looks more like a rock musician than an aspiring shrink.

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In The Fence My Father Built, when legally separated Muri Pond, a librarian, hauls her kids, teenage Nova and eleven year-old Truman, out to the tiny town of Murkee, Oregon, where her father, Joe Pond lived and died, she’s confronted by a neighbor’s harassment over water rights and Joe’s legacy: a fence made from old oven doors. The fence and accompanying house trailer horrify rebellious Nova, who runs away to the drug-infested streets of Seattle. Muri searches for her daughter and for something to believe in, all the while trying to save her inheritance from the conniving neighbor who calls her dad Chief Joseph. Along with Joe’s sister, Aunt Lutie, and the Red Rock Tabernacle Ladies, Muri must rediscover the faith her alcoholic dad never abandoned in order to reclaim her own spiritual path.