The sorrow and the bliss7/4/2023 ![]() I related too much to some of Martha’s ‘tendencies’ – how depressing she finds hotel restaurants, her refusal to buy a book because of not wanting to own something with a cover that shade of yellow – how disconcerting she found the idea of wanting to buy something from Accessorize – of someone longing for something ‘so simple it could be outlined in pencil.’ ![]() I had to put it down at times due to the waves of emotions that confused me having not cried for some time since I switched to an SSRI that actually works. ![]() I was left with the same ‘inexplicable’ grief the narrator feels when she sees adults eating ice cream in public. To me, each small excerpt of this story reads like poetry – the end lines of each poignant and pithy paragraph resonate on an emotional level you can’t quite place as a result of the way she writes about the small details and interactions of this character and her family. Similar two star reviews on Amazon have complained that Meg Mason’s third novel, Sorrow and Bliss reads like a psychiatric assessment but as a psychiatrist I have to disagree. ![]() Why do people who give 1 star Amazon reviews for books that feature a depressed narrator always complain primarily about them being self-indulgent? ![]()
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