Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith is a 1970s set literary fiction/psychological drama about a woman's traumatically-induced journey into mental illness, free courtesy of The Fiction Studio.
Currently free @
B&N,
Amazon (available to Canadians and in the
UK), and
Sony (available to Canadians). May show up elsewhere; sometimes TFS/Story Plant also distribute to iTunes, sometimes they don't.
Description
Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, HYSTERA is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. Tripping through failed love affairs with men and doomed friendships, all Lilly wants is to be sheltered from reality. She retreats from the outside world into a world of delusion and the private terrors of a New York City Psychiatric Hospital.
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.