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In Four Rooms, Upstairs, Linda Appleman Shapiro offers a engaging family history, addressing issues of love, damage and loyalty as she requires the reader back to her child years in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn through the 1940s and 50s, and also to her life with a mom experiencing mental illness. Posting memory from years before modern day progress were achieved in treatments and psychiatry, we see her family struggle to survive in a day and age when the words "mental disorder" were rarely uttered and dysfunctional family members did not look on best time television. It was a period when her family''s "secret" hovered over each of its users, when loved ones, as well as the patients themselves, were tortured by the ordeal of the condition, left restless by the knowledge, and famished for explanations. Checking out the process in which she learned to accept her own dark aspect while honoring her strengths, Shapiro speaks to all or any who have grown up threatened and haunted by unexplained terror. Her report, however, isn't only about the ravages of mental disorder; it specifically addresses the need to re-define and re-invent ourselves in order to rise above trauma. Together with the insight of a seasoned psychotherapist so when a see to the individuals capacity for pain and survival, she helps us understand the healing ability of forgiving without forgetting. Shapiro reminds us, as well, of the need to interrupt family dysfunction by merging life''s sweetness with its sorrow, reconciling its interpretation with its secret.
