Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In recent years, the use of drugs such Prozac have been described in memoirs and accounts of depression but I felt this was only a partial, inadequate answer. I felt that the continual oversimplifications in the media threw more darkness than light onto this disturbing and beguiling state of human behavior and ultimately silenced the cries from those in the throes of it. Leora Skolkin Smith: I was drawn to writing about mental illness by the popular medical and cultural presentations of it. Yona Zeldis McDonough: This is an unflinching portrait of mental illness what drew you to the subject? Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talked with Smith about Patty Hearst, mental illness and the old city of Jerusalem. She retreats into a world of delusion and lands in a New York City psychiatric hospital Hystera charts her journey into the darkest hell of self-and back again. ![]() In this slim but brutal novel, Lillian Weill blames herself for the fatal accident that takes her father away. Tripping through failed love affairs and doomed friendships, all Lilly wants is shelter and peace. Originally published in 2011 by Fiction Studio Books, Leora Skolkin Smith’s Hystera (winner of the Global E-Books Award and the USA Book Award in Fiction) will be re-released on September 10 by The Story Plant. ![]()
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