Farrago: A Memoir of Markie and Me

Farrago, from the Latin farragin, is a word that means a confused mixture. This memoir, sharing the story of the relationship between author Diana B. Roberts and her mother, Markie, is just that - a farrago containing neither positive nor negative judgment. Markie Byron Roberts was eighty-five years old when she passed away - a long life for anyone, but particularly for a woman who had been institutionalized for mental illness six times, beginning at age sixteen, and who had been unwillingly sub