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Katya Cengel is the author of Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) and Foreword INDIES winner From Chernobyl with Love and two other non-fiction books including Exiled featured in a California State Library curated collection. Katya reports from around the world for New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire and Smithsonian among others.
"""Straitjackets and Lunch Money is a marvel--a bracing account of the author's childhood mental illness written with such lucid honesty, such palpable empathy, that the reader becomes immediately invested in the fortunes of each sick or lost child we meet. It is a wise and merciless book, humble and deeply brave. I can't imagine what it cost Cengel to write this book, but I'm profoundly glad that she wrote it."" --Ted Scheinman, senior editor of Smithsonian Magazine and author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. ""Katya's early pain, showing up as anorexia, landed her in a med-psych ward at age ten: a speechless child tied down with cotton strips, force-fed through a tube. Fortunately she found her voice on paper and a calling to tell the stories of other silenced children. Beautifully written, Straitjackets and Lunch Money is a searing page-turner and wake-up call."" --Joan Steinau Lester, PEN-award winning author of Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White."
