Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo's Nest

Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo's Nest is a powerful firsthand account of life inside a Southern California residential facility for recovering psychiatric patients—as told by an unlikely observer, George T. Nagel, an 80-year-old graduate student who volunteered there in the 1970s as fieldwork for his master's at California State University, Northridge. With clarity, compassion, and humor, Nagel captures the struggles and triumphs of those navigating the fragile space between institu...