Deborah, sixteen, is hounded by private tormentors that separate her from the outside world as she is engulfed in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia. She joins a mental hospital with her parents’ hesitant and scared assent, where she would spend the next three years battling for her sanity with the support of a great doctor. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a modern classic that is just as heartbreaking, riveting, and important today as it was when it was originally released.