Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, sixteen-year-old Deborah can be haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the exterior world. With the hesitant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental medical center where she’ll spend another three years fighting to restore her sanity by using a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the ‘normal’ lifestyle she and her family hope for, the reader is inexorably drawn into her personal suffering and deep determination to confront her demons. Today’s classic, I By no means Promised You a Rose Backyard remains just as poignant, gripping, and relevant today as when it was first published.