“I saw the charts that noted what made a patient more or less likely to succeed. I read about the ‘unexpected failures.’  According to the book the ‘unexpected failures’ were those attractive, intelligent, promising young women who had, against all expectation, offed themselves in the years post-discharge. 

I knew I shouldn’t be reading but I couldn’t stop. I read for clues to my own prognosis. It didn’t look good.”

Promising Young Women by Suzanne Scanlon is our October pick.  Download it here.