Catching up on reading
A great short story by Janet Frame in the New Yorker (Sept 1, 2008):
"Gorse Is Not People"
Wild Gorse.
Found among New Zealand writer Janet Frame's papers after her passing in 2004, this short story is thought to be from the 1950s, so maybe she wrote it while in Europe? The story takes place mostly in a N.Z. mental hospital halfway through the twentieth century. Frame herself was wrongly diagnosed as schizophrenic and was hospitalized for a time, receiving "electoshock therapy."
Other Janet Frame works from the New Yorker
The movie An Angel At My Table (1990, d. Jane Campion) brought Frame to the attention of Americans and increased interest in her work.