<p>My Sacred Obsession, one of three novels she left, illustrates the therapeutic benefit of writing. Ritchey's family commented that the writing was not very "good," but good or bad writing is not the issure here. The human story is. Charlene Ritchey's personal story, filtered through her fictional ones, offers an illustration of writing as a way people redefine social order as a survival means. Rather than reading fictions as themes and complex works of art, we often enrich ourselves more by understanding that writings of various kinds shape and re-shape the ways in which a culture envisions itself and structures its problems. Writers who do such work give a means of ordering the worlds they inhabit, and, by analogy, offer instruction for the rest of us with our own chaos and confusion.</p>

My Sacred Obsession

Ritchey, Charlene

Greystone Press

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My Sacred Obsession