im a neurologically-ill trans woman, i live in a disability support home with security cameras and support staff and a security system. ive lived in psych wards a few(6) times. i take heavy antipsychotics.
i was wondering if there are any lighthearted daily-life/office-humor style books about living in a facility kinda like where i live(have lived), except with a scifi fantasy twist to it? hopefully with a character who is a trans woman like me or at least a queer lesbian mayb? mayb a woman somewhere in the book i can relate to?
almost like a lighthearted take on what its like being an S.C.P.? for instance mayb theres some sympathetic guards who bring u a lil extra food somtimes so youre always trying ur best not to hav an incident when they come by? that kind of thing?
by petermobeter
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You have way too may things on this wish to find them in one book–you want it set in mental health facility, but light hearted, you want it be sci-Fi Fantasy, and you want a trans woman or queer lesbian. It is going to be a stratech to find all of these elements. Here are a couple of books that have two of them:
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini –set in Psychiatric hospital/humorous and light hearted- no SF element and pragonoist is a teenage boy. There is a transwoman character – but opinion vary on how well written that character is.
In Bad Actors by Mick Herron (a satirical spy series with some comic elements) youngish queer woman Shirley Dander i sent to sanitarium to detox. This is one plot line.
Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers – is Sci-Fi Fantasy Mash up a sprawling tale with many characters and part involves a bunch of people breaking out of psychiatric institution run by a rogue psychiatrist. Hijinks ensue.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey – battle of the wills between a patient and nurse set in a pyschiactric hospital – described as boisterous and ribald.
The Master and Margarita by MIkhail Bulgakov isbook with fantasy elements and highly satirical with some key parts set in a psychiatric hospital.