"Code White is the kind of book that those 'chick lit' books have nightmares about."
— Broken Pencil (Issue 31)

"The book is both tragically hilarious and unabashedly sexy."—Xtra!

Alex wakes up in a psychiatric ward covered in mud, with no memory of how she got there. In the all-women's ward that is now home, she creates space for herself in the only private place she can find — her diary. Detailing her life after a sudden manic episode, Alex reports the often hilariously bizarre details of her days while trapped on the inside. The other patients get on her nerves. Her friends on the outside don't know how to deal with her incarceration. True to her high-femme identity even while draped in hospital-issue pyjamas, Alex is determined to be in control, as she scopes her ward-mates, and skirmishes with the staff for information on her treatment. Alex is a witty, neurotic narrator, negotiating dyke drama on both sides of the locked doors, and seducing characters and readers with the machinations of her lively, complex mind.

Code White is an innovative story of psychiatric confinement, rippling with sardonic humour, sexual tension, and rebellious honesty, in a setting that often lacks all three.

"As much a novel of trauma and recovery as a critique of the conditions we create for those in recovery, Code White poses important questions about the ongoing pathologization of queerness in psychiatric practice and about how we know what wellness, integrity and sanity are in the first place."— The Hour (Montreal)

McGilligan Books • 2005 • ISBN: 1-894692-11-X
TPB 288 Pages • $19.95 CDN • Fiction/Queer Studies

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