THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O.

In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love.A Belletrist Book Club Pick A year after her child is born Jane suffers a series of strange episodes: amnesia premonitions hallucinations and an inexplicable sense of dread. Three days after her first visit to a psychiatrist Jane suddenly goes missing. A day later she is found unconscious in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in the midst of what seems to be an episode of dissociative fugue; when she comes to she has no memory of what has happened to her.Are Jane’s strange experiences the result of being overwhelmed by motherhood or are they manifestations of a long-buried trauma from her past? Why is she having visions of a young man who died twenty years ago and who warns her of a disaster ahead? Jane’s symptoms lead her psychiatrist ever deeper into the farthest reaches of her mind and cause him to question everything he thinks he knows about so-called reality—including events in his own life.Karen Thompson Walker’s profound and beautifully written novel is both a speculative mystery about memory identity and fate and a mesmerizing literary puzzle about the bonds of love—between mother and child between a man and a woman and among those we’ve lost but who may still be among us.