Rosewood

A family genealogist opens the book on incest, misplaced affection and insanity in a Pennsylvania mining town 1884-1963. Something was wrong with Rose. She lived only four months. Her arrival precipitated Link Parkers descent into insanity. While his family dangled on the fringes of respectability in Rosewood, Link lived in a state mental institution, refusing to come home when psychiatrists agreed to release him. Through a box of Victorian postcards, Maggie Parker enters Links splintered mind and charts Libbys struggle to keep her promise to him making triumph of a familys tragic experience with mental illness.