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2019., QC Fiction Call No: QWF Fic Led Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: We're never quite sure what made Chloé take a flight to an unnamed country in South America. There she lives in self-imposed exile following a suicide attempt. This series of short vignettes provides a glimpse of Chloé's scattered thoughts as she attempts to adjust to life in a new setting and recover from her depressive episode. Amidst the quirky observational humour of her internal monologue, a story of loneliness emerges as she tries (for the most part unsuccessfully) to form meaningful connections with the people she meets--and does her best to avoid--in her new surroundings. At times biting and sarcastic, at times beautiful and reflective, this debut novel takes an intimate look at depression, with a sharp and witty narrator who rides the line between self-aware and self-deprecating.
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-- Sorrow & bliss :By Mason, Meg2021., Adult, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Mas Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford that she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick, the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy, has just moved out. Because there's something wrong with Martha and there has been for a long time. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. But countless doctors, endless therapy, and every kind of drug later, she still doesn't know what's wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. And she has nowhere to go except her childhood home: a bohemian (dilapidated) townhouse in a romantic (rundown) part of London, to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her. But maybe, by starting over, Martha will get to write a better ending for herself, and she'll find out that she's not quite finished after all.
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c2014., Adult, Harper/HarperCollins Call No: Fic Umr Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn't need a shrink; she needs a friend. Determined to empower Lakshmi as a woman who feels valued in her own right, Maggie abandons protocol, and soon doctor and patient have become close friends. But while their relationship is deeply affectionate, it is also warped by conflicting expectations. When Maggie and Lakshmi open up and share long-buried secrets, the revelations will jeopardize their close bond, shake their faith in each other, and force them to confront painful choices."--Publisher.
