![]() ![]() The harsh conditions and backward treatments of the asylum are painful to read indeed, they are the stuff of nightmares. Clara is committed to Willard Asylum after she defies her father by taking an Italian immigrant as her lover. There is certainly a shock factor to What She Left Behind. Through the reading of Clara’s diary, Izzy embarks on a mission to discover the girl’s fate. She is shocked to discover the contents of the large steamer trunk belonging to Clara Cartwright, an 18-year-old girl committed to the asylum in 1930. Convinced that her mother is insane, Izzy is particularly sensitive when her latest set of foster parents ask her to help them catalog the personal effects of the former patients of a shuttered mental institution. ![]() Izzy Stone has been in and out of foster homes since her mother fatally shot her father and was sent to prison. What She Left Behind chronicles the lives of two young women living approximately 60 years apart. ![]()
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