The listing, The Order of Things:A Novel -- Lynne Hinton (Hardcover) has ended.
Andreas Jay Hackett is a university librarian known for her love of keeping things organized. But one summer, she finds herself falling away from a sense of well-being, depressed, "out of order." Her work gives her no pleasure, her friends worry about her, and her own voice begins to frighten her. Therapy, pills, and doctor visits don't el. so she checks herself into a psychiatric facility.
There, she finds herself housed next door to a prison inmate who has also been hospitalized. As she talks with her new neighbor, Andreas begins to come out of her despair -- and ultimately finds thee healing she needs through a friendship that develops in the darkest of circumstances, and despite boundaries of race, gender, education, and age.
The Order of Things is the story of a friendship between two unlikely people in the mokst unexpected place -- and a celebration of how friendship can bring hearts back into order.