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International Book Awards 2016 finalist for literary fiction Written by a prominent psychiatrist, this stirring portrait of one woman s psychological unraveling takes readers on a suspenseful journey across the blurred boundaries between sanity and depression, madness and healing. Margo Kerber has endured difficult years battling infertility while trying to sustain her good marriage and satisfying career. When a joyful pregnancy ends in a late miscarriage, she is devastated. For a time, the false belief that she is once again pregnant rescues her from grief. When this comforting fantasy inevitably clashes with ultrasound reality, Margo falls into a deep depression. She is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where the environment is often chaotic. Worried it is making her worse, she seizes an opportunity to flee. Alone on the city streets, a new fantasy propels her to kidnap a baby from its carriage."
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International Book Awards 2016 finalist for literary fiction
The End of Miracles is a twisting, haunting story about the drastic consequences of a frustrated obsession.
A woman with a complex past wants nothing more than to become a mother, but struggles with infertility and miscarriage. She is temporarily comforted by a wish-fulfilling false pregnancy, but when reality inevitably dashes that fantasy, she falls into a depression so deep she must be hospitalized. The sometimes-turbulent environment of the psychiatry unit rattles her and makes her fear for her sanity, and she flees. Outside, she impulsively commits a startling act with harrowing consequences for herself and others.
This emotionally gripping novel is a suspenseful journey across the blurred boundaries between sanity and madness, depression and healing.
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When a pregnancy following years of infertility ends in late miscarriage, Margo Kerber sinks into a depression-one that leads her, when she encounters a briefly unattended baby, to commit an unthinkable crime.