Category: Phoebe Hoss

Wise Women Gone Mental

05/31/10 | by Carolyn Jackson [mail] | Categories: Georgia, President Carter, healthcare policy, Phoebe Hoss, mental health, rosalynn carter

No one at the public radio station warned Phoebe Hoss not to read the f-word. She’s 84, after all, with white hair and lovely manners. Perhaps the interviewer thought it unnecessary. Never mind, she read it anyway, although you didn’t hear it if you were listening, thanks to some sound engineer.

Flying from the lips of her then 9 year-old son as he looks for a weapon to attack his friends, the f-word appears repeatedly in the opening of her book, All Eyes:A Mother’s Struggle to Save Her Schizophrenic Son.

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