Global Read sponsored by Education and Healthcare Sectors Webinar: Petey with author Ben Mikaelsen, October 24, 8 am, Pacific. Learn more and register.
Petey is a touching story of friendship, discovery, and the uplifting power of the human spirit. From the author of Petey: During a chance conversation at a Montana barn dance, I first heard of Petey Corbin (his real name was Clyde Cothern). Despite a limited, degrading and frightening life, Petey possessed an irrepressible happiness. Initially, I was merely curious how anyone could exist locked inside their body. After meeting the real-life Petey, however, I became entranced by the depth of his perceptions and appreciations-considering he came from the time-warp isolation of an insane ward. I discovered that for fifty-five years Petey had been befriended by a slightly retarded, clubfooted boy. The two had developed a close, life-long bond-becoming islands of hope for each other in a chaotic, insane world.