Marge Piercy

Consuelo Ramos, a former college student, mother, and pickpocket, finds herself confined to a New York mental hospital after assaulting a pimp. As she navigates a world of neuroelectric experimentation, Consuelo struggles between reclaiming her life and succumbing to an endless present of institutional control. This novel explores her fight for sanity and freedom against a system designed to keep her imprisoned.