My Bittersweet Charlie: A Novel: A Tender and Tragic Love Story about a Young Teacher and Her Battles with Manic-Depression and Schizophrenia

My Bittersweet Charlie is shocking. It was intended to be. It is also funny, frightening, poignant, and tender. Above all, it is tragic as only real life can be.

The novel begins with Dr. Doug Larson, a university professor, writing and delivering to Miss Charlie Johnston, an elementary school teacher, an angry and hurtful letter telling her to pick up her furniture from his house and get out of his life. Doug and Charlie met almost three years earlier when she took a graduate class which h...