SHUTTER OF SNOW (FABER EDITIONS) (PB)

Some days, Marthe Gail believes she is God; others, Jesus Christ. Her baby, she thinks, is dead. The red light is shining. There are bars on the window. The doctors say it is a breakdown; that this is Gorestown State Hospital. Her fellow patients become friends and enemies. Her husband visits and shows her a lock of her baby's hair, but she doesn't remember... Shocking and hilarious, tragic and visceral, this experimental portrait of motherhood and mental illness written in 1930 has never felt more visionary.