Study in Hysteria

<p> A heartbreakingly beautiful debut. Sandra A. Miller author of <em>Wednesdays at One</em></p><p><br></p><p>In the middle of 1974 Flora is privileged and middle-aged in a liberation-hued America and feels both compelled by and left out of the women's movement. She finds it difficult to activate her limited supply of empathy as she contends with a clandestine and unlikely friendship a worrisome health scare a domineering and philandering psychiatrist husband or her own distant daughter.</p><p><br></p><p>Flora's secret foray into psychotherapy does nothing to halt the sense that there is a better life for her somewhere else in some parallel existence. Through the continuum of psychological diagnoses she is lost in the murky place between contentment and discontentment normal and abnormal.</p><p><br></p><p>Is her state of mind a clinical diagnosable condition or common malaise? Perhaps she'll find out if she stops resisting to share herself with those who love her.</p>