"Uncle" is a gripping account of Crickette's childhood growing up with an alcoholic paranoid schizophrenic manifesting in the bedroom next door. Estranged from her parents and sent to live with her grandparents as a child, Crickette grew up in constant fear of the illness that was slowly tightening its grip on her reality. In her first novelette, "Uncle", Crickette weaves a series of traumatic encounters with schizophrenia as seen through the eyes of a child growing into a resourceful, resilient yet traumatized adult. It all comes to a head in this enticing personal memoir one fateful holiday weekend; an honest, unadulterated look behind the curtain of schizophrenia. It is a tale of survival.