Book
3 of 3 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection (2 copies)
- OSHTEMO: Adult Stacks
Rabbits for food
Call Number
- FICTION KIRS (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Soho, [2019]
Physical Description
371 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Summary
"It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow 'lunatics' and writing a novel about how she got to this place. Her story is a hilarious and harrowing deep dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw."--