72 Hour Hold -- Bebe Moore Campbell

<p><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b>- <b>"A tightly woven, well-written story about mothers and daughters, highs and lows, ex-husbands and boyfriends.... Universally touching." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b> <p/>Trina is eighteen and suffers from bi-polar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Frightened by her own child, Keri searches for help, quickly learning that the mental health community can only offer her a seventy-two hour hold. After these three days Trina is off on her own again.</p><p>Fed up with the bureaucracy and determined to save her daughter by any means necessary, Keri signs on for an illegal intervention known as The Program, a group of radicals who eschew the psychiatric system and model themselves after the Underground Railroad. In the upheaval that follows, she is forced to confront a past that refuses to stay buried, even as she battles to secure a future for her child. <p/></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Bebe Moore Campbell<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 06/01/2006<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.57lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.14h x 5.28w x 0.73d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781400033614<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Kliatt</i> 09/01/2006 pg. 20<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Bebe Moore Campbell was the author of several <i>New York Times </i>bestsellers: <i>Brothers and Sisters</i>, <i>Singing in the Comeback Choir</i>, <i>What You Owe Me</i>, which w