Road Stories by Ed Davis6/20/2023 ![]() A shift supervisor explains the classifications for one ward: “The Thunderbirds…are mostly high functioning morons. But the place and the people are just as I remember them.” Davis skillfully evokes the setting with its hierarchies, routines, customs and varied characters. Noting that the book is fictional, Davis states that he has “taken some liberties to serve the story. ![]() ![]() A 17-year-old undergoes training as a psychiatric technician at a California state hospital in this fictionalized memoir.ĭavis ( Road Stories, 2013) bases this novel on his experience in a training program for psychiatric technicians at then–Sonoma State Hospital in Eldridge, California, beginning in 1970 when he was 17. ![]()
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