Dear Readers,
Here’s an update on Tomorrow Was Yesterday — Explosive First-Person Indictments of the US Mental Health System —Mothers Across the Nation Tell It Like It Is.
The book is moving through production. I’ll receive the printer’s proof in the next couple of weeks. There are some delays in publishing due to COVDI-19, but with luck, Tomorrow Was Yesterday will be available on Amazon by the second week of December. Hopefully in time for Christmas ordering. It will also be available through special order at Barnes & Noble and other IngramSparks outlets.
From the back cover:
In these snapshots from on-going sagas, you’ll read about grim realities — terrible group homes, suicides, adult children killed by police, incarcerations, solitary confinement, lack of beds, family chaos, substance abuse, ineffective medications, heart-breaking HIPAA restrictions, hallucinations, homelessness, sorrow, hurt, and anger. Simultaneously, you’ll read about profound love, caregiving, gratitude, forgiveness, hope, strength, persistence, resilience, generosity, leadership, courage, pursuing dreams, understanding, and heroism.
Please read our stories. Set aside any conscious biases about serious mental illnesses (SMI) and the people and families who struggle with them. Imagine us as relatives or friends — people you care deeply about. We mothers, in Tomorrow Was Yesterday, are counting on you to help us use outrage and compassion to reach a tipping point for change. We’re relying on your word of mouth support to get these stories out to the broader, unknowing public. It has no idea how abysmal things are.
—Dede Ranahan
“I am confident these stories will cause the world to wake up, take notice,
and implement the change we so badly need.”
—Miriam Feldman, painter and author of
He Came In with It: A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness
“Reading these intimate accounts will change you. It changed me.”
—Steve Goldbloom, Emmy-nominated writer, producer, director, and creator of the
Brief But Spectacular series for PBS NEWsHour. The show’s mission is to
invite viewers to walk in someone else’s shoes.
“If these stories can't convince policy makers, I don't know what will.”
—Mindy Greiling, Minnesota legislator for 20 years, and author of
Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son.
