A Room with a Darker ViewUnsurprisingly, feminists have been at the forefront of writing illness narratives, from Virginia Woolf to Audre Lorde and Susan Sontag. My family's inability to accommodate my mother's illness, the perniciousness of her particular subtype of schizophrenia, paranoia, and the story of women's fight for gender equality in both the workplace and at home are part of this chronicle. A Room with a Darker View is an unflinching, feminist work that chronicles