Nutterville...

not just a state of mind...

Nutterville. It was what it was. Or was it? In this tender and passionate memoir by Faye Kufahl, the reader is drawn into small town life in Wisconsin in the 1950s.

It's not a story wrapped up in a cute little package with a happy ending; it's a story of lives shattered by a family member's mental illness. Faye's predictable ease of growing up in a large family is rocked by the onset of her older sister Gail's paranoid schizophrenia. This development slowly but progressively affects the relationships between family members. Ultimately, this leads Faye away from Nutterville and into a life journey of helping those who live with mental illness.

Welcome to Nutterville, where everybody knew everybody, where life was seemingly quiet and simple, yet where secrets lay like hidden time bombs. This book is a tribute to many troubled yet glorious people. Their stories, told by a superb storyteller, are deeply moving and will stay with you for the rest of your life.