New Historical Fiction: Guests on Earth

Guests on Earth
After falling into depression following her mother's death, Evalina Touissaint is sent to the infamous Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina by her mother's lover. Highland is known for it's radical treatment methods, such as shock therapy to treat mental illness. Evalina spends years in and out of the hospital and over time she begins to consider the hospital workers and patients her family.  
 Through a shared interest in music, Evalina comes to know the most famous patient at the hospital, Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of the famed author F. Scott.  Both women consistently contradict the acceptable standard for how females should behave, which essentially guarantees that no matter how often Evalina escapes the hospital or is released for improvement, she will always return to Highland. 

"Perennially best-selling Smith (Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, 2010) presents an impeccably researched historical novel that reveals the early twentieth century's antediluvian attitudes toward mental health and women's independence." 
- Booklist Reviews

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