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- Book Synopsis
- Told in a broken shorthand voice, Mazza's language is acute, evoking a place where the patients, the caregivers, and the system are all disabled. Teri and Cleo are minimum-wage nurse-aides at a state ward for severely retarded and physically handicapped children. They are expected to feed, bathe, clothe, and carry out the required therapies for their patients in a 4-hour shift. They're working within a system where money for therapy is only continued if therapy shows improvement-and yet the state-paid therapists who oversee the ward know the patients will never show any improvement. To keep the money coming in, it is up to the minimum-wage caregivers to ""see"" and chart important improvements, thus keeping the therapy program alive. Blinded in their own way by their pet-like adoption of favorite patients, Teri and Cleo struggle to remain both optimistic and realistic. As their personal failures mount-and even transpose or emulate the travesties within the state ward-Teri and Cleo, with their own unseen ""disabilities"" in dealing with their lives and pasts, react harshly to the breakdown in the emotional balancing act.
- About The Author
- Cris Mazza's first novel, How to Leave a Country, won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction. Some of her other notable earlier titles include is it Sexual Harassment Yet? (FC2, 1998), Your Name Here: _ (Coffee House Press, 1995), and Dog People (Coffee House Press, 1997). She is also co-editor of Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (FC2, 1995), and Chick-Lit 2 (No Chick Vics) (FC2, 1996). Mazza's most recent books include Indigenous / Growing Up Californian (City Lights, 2003) and Homeland (Small Press Distribution, 2004). A native of Southern California, Mazza has lived outside Chicago since 1993. She is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781573661218
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press, (28 February 2005)
- Number of Pages
- 131
- Weight
- 180 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215 x 139 x 10 mm
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