City of Incurable Women Casey Maud
City of Incurable Women Casey Maud "City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria--and the curiously hysterical…
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City of Incurable Women Casey Maud
"City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria--and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. In City of Incurable Women, she has given us her best work yet. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty." --Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through "I would follow Maud Casey anywhere.
What a glorious work of art and what a true gift to us." --Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters and Run Me to Earth "Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?" wrote Jacques Lacan. Long This is a song for the forgotten, full of voices that will stay with you and guide you--an astonishing portrayal of rage and hope.