Magnificent Among the Angelfish (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781548786540)

Meet 15-year-old poet savant, James Freer -- a bright, vocal, imaginative, charming and irreverent young man -- and lifelong resident of the Elsie Whitney Psychiatric Hospital and School in Magnolia Massachusetts. James suffers from Capgras Syndrome, a rare condition where the sufferer believes life is full of impostors - possibly even including him.Another of author Jason Taylor Morgan's deeply character-driven narratives that flow between the everyday and extraordinary worlds, MAGNIFICENT AMONG THE ANGELFISH presents James' unique take on reality and his battle with it. Does he want to try to become sane enough to live out in what he calls Reality USA, life outside the hospital's boundaries? Or stay in his 'safe', eccentric world in the hospital where sanity is fleeting and imagination is real?Set in 1973, daily life on Unit 3 for Adolescent Boys is a moment-to-moment struggle to stay in some realm of sanity, not always the one preferred by hospital staff. Usually, it is tragic - comical bedlam, with many deeply sick teenage boys that on some days as James describes it, "it's like the Me Lie Massacre wearing red Keds."James is an orphan, left in the care of the hospital as a toddler. Finally giving in to his deep need to find out who he is, where he came from and if he belongs to anyone -- James ingeniously breaks out of the hospital. In a 'borrowed' BMW and with his meds wearing off, he sets off into Reality USA to find his destiny. And, man, does James find it! MAGNIFICENT AMONG THE ANGELFISH is touching, always entertaining, tragic and joyful. You will never forget him.

Author: Jason Taylor Morgan
ISBN-10: 1548786543
ISBN-13: 9781548786540
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2017
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d