Almost EdenBy: Anita Horrocks It is the hot prairie summer of her twelfth year and Elsie is at a crossroads. Her beloved mother who is mentally ill has been hospitalized, and Elsie thinks that the breakdown is all her fault. Mental illness is simply not discussed in Elsies close knit Mennonite community and she is rudderless. Nothing Elsie does seems to go right: theres no pleasing her bossy older sister; she forgets to feed the cat, so her father gives it away;