HESITATION WOUNDS

A new novel by the author of I Smile Back, now a major film starring Sarah Silverman.

Amy Koppelman is a novelist of astonishing power, with a sly, dark voice, at once fearless and poetic. In her new novel, Dr. Susanna Seliger is a renowned psychiatrist with a specialty in treatment-resistant depression. All of the most difficult cases come through her door, and she has carefully crafted her practice tokeep her professional distance from her patients. Susa will happily discuss the proper titration of their medication or symptom management, but when it comes to talk therapy, she draws the line at messy feelings and unhappy childhoods. But one patient, Jim, opens up Susa's own hastily stitched up wounds. She becomes flooded with painful memories and is once again haunted by the sinking feeling that there was something she could have done to save the people she has lost. Susa must confront her past and find some hope in the future in order to prevent her patients and herself from falling deeper into the black hole of depression. In Hesitation Wounds, Amy Koppelman creates a harrowing portrait of loss, seamlessly weaving memories into the present to show just how much the past can invade one's everyday life. Amy Koppelman is a graduate of Columbia's MFA program. Her writing has appeared in The New York Observer and Lilith. She lives in New York City with her husband, Brian Koppelman, and their two children. Her previous novels are I Smile Back and A Mouthful of Air.