Virginia Holman

In 1975, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia National Bank, a second kidnapping took place far from the glare of the headlines. Virginia Holman's mother, in the thrall of psychosis, spirited her two daughters to a cottage on the Virginia Peninsula, painted the windows black, and set up the house as a MASH unit for a secret war. A war that never came. The family -- captive to her mother's schizophrenia and a legal system that refused to intervene -- remained there for more than three years. "What sets this book apart," the Hartford Courant observed, "is Virginia's voice...brave, smart, tough." Reviewers nationwide have praised Holman's "riveting," "endearing," and "wryly humorous" story of a young girl caught in the whirlwind of madness -- a girl who chooses a brainwashed heiress as her role model. Holman's memoir vividly and brilliantly evokes the interior worlds of the sane and the insane and the delicate membrane in between. An essential exploration of identity, captivity, and love, Rescuing Patty Hearst will inspire readers' faith in the resilience of one family's spirit to survive and thrive even in the direst of circumstances.

Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad

Rescuing Patty Hearst

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Karen E. Bender

Michael White

Jason Mott

Kevin Maurer

Wiley Cash

Philip Gerard

Jean Jones

Dana Sachs

Wendy Brenner

Melodie Homer

Marlon Rachquel Moore

Susan Taylor Block

Sheila Webster Boneham

Jason Frye

Robert Anthony Siegel

Emily A. Colin

Emily Louise Smith

Rhonda Bellamy

Gwenyfar

Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams

Ashley Wahl

Nan Graham

Bertha Boykin Todd

James R. Leutze

Daniel Ray Norris

27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry is the latest in Eno's popular series of local anthologies. The book showcases the literary life of one of North Carolina's most popular cities by featuring the works of more than two dozen hometown writers. The result is a mosaic of perspectives about life in the Port City in a variety of genres--journalism, history, fiction, poetry, and more. To date, contributors include Wiley Cash, Nan Graham, Jason Mott, Gwenyfar Rohler, Melodie Homer, Kevin Mauer, Virginia Holman, Dana Sachs, Rhonda Bellamy, Susan T. Block, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Emily Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bertha Boykin Todd, Philip Gerard, and more.

The Port City in Prose & Poetry

27 Views of Wilmington

Rescuing Patty Hearst is an unflinching account of the dark days during which Holman's family was held hostage by her mother's delusions and the country was beset by the folly of the Watergate era . . . a startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind . . . and, finally, it lingers as a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way. Available only in Americana 5 Series.

Memories from a Decade Gone Mad

Virginia Holman

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