6/1/2023 0 Comments Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith![]() ![]() One night she swallows too many pills mixed with alcohol and then checks herself into the psychiatric ward at the state hospital. Lilly is a student in the 1970's at Sarah Lawrence College who experiences her life slip away from her in short mental breaks. Skolkin-Smith puts this to rest in HYSTERA. “Someone once said that literature is either weighty and wise or interesting and captivating. How do we know who we really are? How do we find our true selves under the heavy burden of family and our pasts? In an unpredictable portrait of mental illness Hystera penetrates to the pulsing heart of the questions.įrom RAGMAG, An International Magazine of Culture, Art, Entertainment, Reviewer, Amal Chaaban ![]() She is a foreigner there until her fellow patients release her from her isolation with the power of human intimacy. Unreachable behind her thick wall of fears, the world of hospital corridors and strangers become a vessel of faith. She retreats from the outside world into a world of delusion and the private terrors of a New York City Psychiatric Hospital. Tripping through failed love affairs with men, and doomed friendships, all Lilly wants is to be sheltered from reality. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. ![]() ![]() Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Leora Skolkin-Smith's Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. The story of a young woman in a mental hospital in 1974 ![]()
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