5150: A Transfer

Fiction & Literature, LGBT, Gay, Literary
Cover of the book 5150: A Transfer by Duncan MacLeod, Duncan MacLeod
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Author: Duncan MacLeod ISBN: 9781301180417
Publisher: Duncan MacLeod Publication: October 10, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Duncan MacLeod
ISBN: 9781301180417
Publisher: Duncan MacLeod
Publication: October 10, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Psychosis is not for the faint of heart. Set in San Francisco's Tenderloin district in the 1980's, 5150 depicts a failure in the rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. When young, gay Ethan Lloyd awakens to tremors he is first convinced they are little earthquakes. They turn out to be a forewarning of a psychotic episode that lands him first in jail, and then transferred or "5150'ed" to the mental hospital. Told in the first person with an extremely unreliable narrator, the book drags the reader into the world of madness and mental hospitals, with only the occasional gasp for air in the agreed-upon common reality most of us share.

Ethan's struggle to regain his sanity is pockmarked by a world of drugs, dirty sidewalks, vagrants and angels. Were it not for society's waterlogged safety nets, he might never have returned to share his tale of survival.

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Psychosis is not for the faint of heart. Set in San Francisco's Tenderloin district in the 1980's, 5150 depicts a failure in the rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. When young, gay Ethan Lloyd awakens to tremors he is first convinced they are little earthquakes. They turn out to be a forewarning of a psychotic episode that lands him first in jail, and then transferred or "5150'ed" to the mental hospital. Told in the first person with an extremely unreliable narrator, the book drags the reader into the world of madness and mental hospitals, with only the occasional gasp for air in the agreed-upon common reality most of us share.

Ethan's struggle to regain his sanity is pockmarked by a world of drugs, dirty sidewalks, vagrants and angels. Were it not for society's waterlogged safety nets, he might never have returned to share his tale of survival.

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