Maud Casey

• Apr-2001
• / General Fiction
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Isabelle, a woman in her thirties without any of the trappings of a grown-up life, has just been fired from her job at a San Francisco phone company. Returning to the midwestern suburb of her childhood, Standardsville, Illinois, she contends with her...

• Jul-2002
• / General Fiction
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Meet the college graduate working in a whole bodyâ€"donation clinic; a young woman obsessed with Benedictine monks; a middle-aged woman who becomes a stand-in talk-show guest; unlikely friends who meet in a domestic violence shelter; a young girl and...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction
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Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Ma...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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In a trance-like state, Albert walks -- from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia -- all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, rid...

• Feb-2022
• / Literary
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In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteri...