Hysteria

Hysteria

by Jessica Gross
Hysteria

Hysteria

by Jessica Gross

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Overview

One of The Observer's Five Most Anticipated Debuts of August ∙ One of Refinery29's Best Books of the Summer ∙ One of Lit Hub's Best New Books of the Summer ∙ One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of August

In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual bender at her local bar. There is a new bartender working this time, one she hasn't seen before, but who can properly make a drink. He looks familiar, and as she is consumed by shame from her behavior the previous week— hooking up with her parents' colleague and her roommate's brother— she also becomes convinced that her Brooklyn bartender is actually Sigmund Freud. They embark on a relationship, and she is forced to confront her past through the prism of their complex, revealing, and sometimes shocking meetings. With the help of Freud—or whoever he is—she begins to untangle her Oedipal leanings, her upbringing, and her desires. Jessica Gross's debut is unflinchingly perceptive and honest, darkly funny, and unafraid of mining the deepest fears of contemporary lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781951213121
Publisher: The Unnamed Press
Publication date: 08/18/2020
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 178,319
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jessica Gross's writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review Daily, among other places. She holds an MFA in fiction from The New School, a Master's degree in cultural reporting and criticism from New York Universityand a Bachelor's in anthropology from Princeton University. She has received fellowships in fiction from the Yiddish Book Center (2017) and the 14th Street Y (2015-16), where she also served as editor of the LABA Journal. She currently teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School. Hysteria is her first novel.

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“Jessica Gross’s riveting tale of sexual adventure and misadventure is at once a scrupulous analysis of the way desire and shame fuel each other in the human psyche, and a dark, fantastical comedy of breakdown and self-discovery in contemporary New York. I loved its bracing candor, its bold resurrection of Freud for the twenty-first century, its bright sketches of city sidewalks and bars, above all its tender intelligence and good humor. Hysteria seems to me the work of a true original.” — James Lasdun, author of The Fall Guy

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