A Rose in Stained Glass chronicles a journey "into deepening psychosis in a first-person account of delusions, close calls, and eventual self-knowledge." ... Bostonia Harmless. Barrie Jacobson has just been released after a week in the hospitalthe mental ward, to be exact. They never did figure out what she had. She's okay now, but a trip to Key West and its warm sea and blue sky would surely free her from the stress of that whole experience. She would get away, relax, and get her life back together.
But first, she needed to find some grass. She had quit cigarettes but still craved the high of marijuanathe harmless herb she'd been smoking for years and years. Welcome to Barrie's worldmore bizarre than any asylum, full of Alice in Wonderland logic, palpable paranoia, beliefs based on twisted perceptions of people, permeated by mystical signs that command her actionsuntil she discovers a profoundand shockingly realtruth.