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A look at the mental health system and proposals to improve it.
Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health/NIH
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, president of the Treatment Advocacy Center
David Shern, president and CEO of Mental Health America
Join Diane and her guests for a discussion of this novel about a newly married Bengali couple's immigration from India to the U.S., their two children, and how all their lives are shaped by accidental events in spite of their plans and intentions.
Christopher Tilghman, novelist, critic and professor of literature at the University of Virginia
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news at "The Washington Post"
Patricia Griffith, novelist and associate professor of English at George Washington University