Books tagged: Psychological
A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning
Translated by Nathalie Stephens
By Catherine Mavrikakis
French novelist Hervé Guilbert's 1991 novel, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, is about a narrator named Hervé Guilbert who, after his close friend Muzil (really, Michel Foucault) dies of AIDS, begins to realize his symptoms are the same. In this same tradition of ... Read more
After You've Gone
By Lori Hahnel
After You've Gone is the story of two generations of musicians, a jazz grandmother and a punk granddaughter, who each struggle with balancing life, love, and art in their respective eras. The novel opens in 2007 with Elsa Taggart and her ex-husband watching their son's convocation ... Read more
Against the Wind
By Madeleine Gagnon & Howard Scott
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff
Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault – the only maternal figure that he has ever known – it is evident that the life of Joseph Sully-Jacques ... Read more
Against the Wind
By Madeleine Gagnon & Howard Scott
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff
Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault – the only maternal figure that he has ever known – it is evident that the life of Joseph Sully-Jacques ... Read more
Agatha
By Anne Cathrine Bomann
Translated by Caroline Waight
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A psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family.
Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists ... Read more
All Is Well
By Katherine Walker
Christine Wright is having a bad day. She’s an ex-special forces soldier and a recovering alcoholic, and now her new career as a church minister has started off with the worst kind of bang. Could it be her reflexes are a little too twitchy for this job?From the opening page, ... Read more
All the World's a Wonder
By Melia McClure
A playwright possessed by her muses, an actress desperate to succeed, and a doctor hauntedby a lost love. Three people cross time and space to meet through the playwright's bizarrecreative process: to create, the playwright must become her characters; to tell her tragic story,the ... Read more
Almost Visible
By Michelle Sinclair
Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after furtively going through his photos and ... Read more