This novel is a poignantly told story about four women at a public psychiatric clinic on the day that the clinic’s closing is announced. Each woman tells her own story in the first person singular voice as the day begins. The characters focus on a critical situation in their personal life -- for example, the social worker has recently learned that her husband is a transvestite -- as well as their perceptions of the other characters at The Charm City Community Mental Health Center. At the end of the day, the women are revisited. Each comes to a sense of resolution about her personal crisis, as well as about the turbulence caused in her life by the imminent closing of the clinic. The reader is left with a feeling of hopefulness and a new beginning.
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This books leaps quickly out of the starting gates as psychotherapist Pat discovers that her husband is a closet transvestite with a wardrobe and underwear collection that puts her own to shame. This sets off a deepening obsessive-compulsive crisis in her own life as her clinic faces closure by faceless bureaucrats, and the orderly world of psychotherapy yields to a chaos only the most befuddled patient really understands. In fact, the real star of Monday at the Charm is patient Judy Jones, a wildly dysfunctional mess whose life is such utter chaos that only she really comprehends the damaged lives of the Charm staff. With her quirky, raw compassion and bemused tolerance, the hopeless Judy offers the most sane reactions to the crumbling personal and professional lives of a small world gone gently around the bend. Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Dinah Miller writes with wonderful energy in this compact, fun novel populated by strangely comic characters who gain our sympathy as they unravel, hit bottom, and react in very personal ways to circumstances beyond their control and comprehension. Miller's first novel offers a most promising peek into the often tiresomely humorless therapeutic world so seldom revealed with its vulnerabilities showing. --Peter Owens, author of Rips
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