I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg, is a fictional semi-autobiographical novel about a sixteen-year-old girl and her three-year battle with schizophrenia. Holt Rinehardt & Winston in New York, New York published this work of fiction.
This novel presents the issue of mental illness from multiple viewpoints. A past of discomfort and sorrow, loneliness and pain darkened an innocent girl with so much potential. She lay broken under the weight of he