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"Growing Up Mad in the South is set in Atlanta, GA, during the 1950s and '60s, when racism, sexism, and personal salvation were lurking behind ""Well bless your heart."" Diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17, the Mad narrator struggles with both her aberrant senses and righteous anger at a society that fails to value everyone. From a toddler learning language to an adolescent trying on love, she flowers into a creative adult who finds grace writing for a literary magazine in an all-girls college. With a widowed Methodist mother and a protective, Hard-Shell Baptist Granny, the narrator's upbringing is shaped by the lyrics of gospel music. Bonnie Schell manages to confront ""Should,"" ""Keep Quiet,"" and ""White Only"" with lyricism and laughter."

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Her voice is brave, ready, shocking, hilarious, poetic and astute...crawls into the taboo...and casts a critical eye on society. Nina Hart, author of Somewhere in a Town You Never Knew Existed Somewhere

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Returning home after 30 years in California, Bonnie Schell's memoirs of growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, are included in the anthologies, What Does It Mean to be White in America?: A Collection of Personal Narratives, The Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South, and WNC Woman. Her poetry has been featured in Coastlines: Six Santa Cruz Poets and in Knut House Press: The Insanity Edition. Bonnie was co-editor of On Our Own Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness. She lives in Asheville, NC, with her big Russian Blue cat, Smokie.

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