Laura M. Flynn '89 recounts the harrowing true story of growing up with a mother who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, in Swallow the Ocean (Counterpoint Press, 2008). In this powerful memoir, Flynn remembers how she and her sisters played along as characters in their mother’s fantasy world until her mother’s illness worsened and her father finally filed for divorce and then custody of the children. Her book, which took six years to write, also vividly recalls the world of San Francisco in the 1970s.