True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime
Fiction Based on Strange, But True, History
Will Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late?
On Blackwell’s Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving.
With her late parents’ fortune under her uncle’s care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society’s demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the women’s lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. And Edyth fears she will never be found.
At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyth’s plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self?
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Gray Chamber
Book Author: Grace Hitchcock
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3.5 stars
"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes skyward, for there you have been , and there you will always long to return." Leonardo da Vinci
Would she ever be free to walk the earth again with her eyes turned skyward, or had her world turned forever gray? Edyth Foster was terrified that color had been forever removed, that love had become forever denied, and that justice had been drowned in the depths of the sea. How had it come to this?
Exceptionally eccentric, but undeniably vivacious, heiress Edyth Foster never imagined that her unusual hobbies and accidental tendences would forfeit her entire future. Deemed insane by her greedy uncle, Edyth is whisked off to a mental asylum on Blackwell's Island without a trace. Desperate to find his beloved, Raoul Banebridge works feverishly to find her, while the answer to Edyth's predicament may be found within hospital's walls . . .. or will everyone be too late?
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me." Psalm 23:4
What an outstanding story; a balance of hope and desperation that so many readers will identify as timeless.
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