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August 15th, 2011
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
By Rachel King
These stories recount relationships between mentally ill people and their non-mentally ill acquaintances who may not be better off than they are. A bi-polar old man and his estranged son, a depressed middle-aged woman and the emotionally needy undefined116122.undefined116123.undefined116124.undefined116731.undefined213152.doctor who attends to her, a lonely teenager who asks a psychotic woman for sex advice. My type of fiction precisely! Haslett has a novel out, now, called Union Atlantic. It seemed too political for me, until I read a review that insists it’s more about messed-up people than politics. Now I plan to read it.
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