A Diagnosis
ISBN-13: 9781918995015
Contributor(s): Elvia Wilk
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Peninsula Press
Publication Date: 11-03-2027
Format: Paperback
Availability: Not yet published
£12.99
About the book
From the author of Oval, a new novel which explores the limits of intimacy and isolation, parenthood and chosen family, and the pharmaceutical industry's insidious reach in times of crisis. New York is months into another police lockdown and Agatha can't sleep. The city is emptying of life, the streets turned over to cops and delivery drivers. Holed up in her Brooklyn apartment with her boyfriend Marco, she has tried every combination of pills to no effect. Their best friends Nathan and Emily are sleepless too, and struggling to conceive. Feeling suffocated by Marco's love, her freelance deadlines, circular conversations about her ambivalence about having children, and intrusive memories of the event that precipitated the lockdown, Agatha is reaching breaking point. Seeking respite - and a cure - Agatha breaks into an empty apartment across the street. Squatting there in isolation, she is diagnosed with a previously unnamed illness and prescribed a strange remedy which begins to warp her body, her grasp of time, and her awareness of the interconnectedness of the world she inhabits.