Mary

Writing from Bellevue asylum — where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night — a famous widow can finally share the story of her life in her own words. From her tempestuous childhood in a slave-holding Southern family through the opium-clouded years after her husband’s death, we are let into the inner, intimate world of this brave and fascinating woman. An engrossing mix of fact and fiction, and a dramatic tale filled with passion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity and redemption, this is the story of Mary Todd Lincoln.