(Hardback)

Depressed over a romantic breakup and her estrangement from her father and his new family, Jennifer Stempler makes a failed attempt at suicide that reunites her with her determined and feisty grandmother, Gabby Zuckerman, who whisks her off to New York City, where she teaches Jennifer how embrace life again.

(Paperback)

Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism. This title offers an account of the young woman's mental afflictions.