https://chipmunkapublishing.com/product/sisyphusa/ the mental health publisher Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://chipmunkapublishing.com/product/sisyphusa/#comment-1376 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:45:53 +0000 https://chipmunkapublishing.com/?product=sisyphusa#comment-1376 Michael Richmond has written a groundbreaking first novel. Suffering from severe depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, Michael spent time in a psychiatric institution and out of this experience, and following a significant dream, he has written an explosive story, set in a dystopian present. Sisyphusa is an intriguing read, exploring the nature of mental illness through the first person narrative of Odis Winston as he is kidnapped and taken to Sisyphusa, a strange institution for anyone classified as “weird”. The book is satirical and covers politics, the media and economics as well as delivering an important message about attitudes to mental illness and the associated stigma. Well written, gripping and very different, Sisyphusa is a novel I really recommend.

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