A Cure for Suicide

Synopsis

Annotation. From The Author Of Silence Once Begun--one Of Our Most Audacious And Original Writers--a Beguiling New Novel About A Man Starting Over At The Most Basic Level, And The Strange Woman Who Insinuates Herself Into His Life And Memory.a Man And A Woman Have Moved Into A Small House In A Small Village. The Woman Is An Examiner, The Man, Her Claimant. The Examiner Is Both Doctor And Guide, Charged With Teaching The Claimant A Series Of Simple Functions: This Is A Chair, This Is A Fork, This Is How You Meet People. She Makes Notes In Her Journal About His Progress: He Is Showing Improvement, Yet His Dreams Are Troubling. One Day, The Examiner Brings Him To A Party, And Here He Meets Hilda, A Charismatic But Volatile Woman Whose Surprising Assertions Throw Everything The Claimant Has Learned Into Question. What Is This Village? Why Is He Here? And Who Is Hilda? A Fascinating Novel Of Love, Illness, Despair, And Betrayal, A Cure For Suicide Is The Most Captivating Novel Yet From One Of Our Most Exciting Young Writers. By Jesse Ball.