![]() ![]() I had to put it down at times due to the waves of emotions that confused me having not cried for some time since I switched to an SSRI that actually works. I was left with the same ‘inexplicable’ grief the narrator feels when she sees adults eating ice cream in public. To me, each small excerpt of this story reads like poetry – the end lines of each poignant and pithy paragraph resonate on an emotional level you can’t quite place as a result of the way she writes about the small details and interactions of this character and her family. ![]() Similar two star reviews on Amazon have complained that Meg Mason’s third novel, Sorrow and Bliss reads like a psychiatric assessment but as a psychiatrist I have to disagree. Why do people who give 1 star Amazon reviews for books that feature a depressed narrator always complain primarily about them being self-indulgent? ![]()
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