Crazy and Proud

Crazy and Proud is the inside story of an invisible place, an inner-city shelter for transient, mentally-ill women. This first-person narrative chronicles what happened in 1999 when Lowell Handler, after his successful memoir Twitch and Shout, was hired as a recreation worker to teach photography to this hidden population. This was not the first time he'd been drawn to social work, but found pretty quickly that working at the shelter was not the experience he thought he'd signed on for. Whi...