The End of Miracles: A Novel

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Submission of The End of Miracles to all relevant trade reviewers Comprehensive book launch PR campaign targeting all relevant news outlets (print, online, and broadcast at national, regional, and local levels), emphasizing the book's themes and authors related expertise Full-page author interview featured in Best Reads column of Washtenaw Jewish News (already published) Coordinated publicity campaign with University of Michigans Public Relations office, where the author is a faculty member Confirmed article in the University of Michigan Depression Centers e-newsletters (distribution list of 4,000-plus members) Development and publication of press articles relative to themes in The End of Miracles

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Monica Starkman offers a penetrating look at the drastic capabilities of the obsessed mind. Written beautifully and carefully, at just the right pace, The End of Miracles is a thoroughly compelling piece of work. Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times bestselling author, literary editor of The New Republic, essayist for Washington Post and Time magazine The End of Miracles is a compelling, empathic novel about a woman whose desperate wish for a child vividly evokes the pain and longing associated with infertility and builds to a climax worthy of a thriller. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Author of Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate and founding editor of Ms Magazine Starkman, a prominent psychiatrist, beautifully captures one womans journey through depression in this superbly well-written and gripping first novel, which powerfully reveals the complexity and strength of the human mind. Booklist For Margo Kerber, the novels stoic and sensitive protagonist, the path to motherhood has been troubled from the start. An unexpectedly joyful pregnancy (is) followed by a miscarriage. Afterward, when Margos body produces false pregnancy symptoms and cruelly tricks her again, it is clear that shes been driven to a breaking point. Margos collapse, unraveling, and gradual recovery bring a conclusion of forgiveness and hope. Best of all is Starkmans portrait of Margoa flawed yet admirably strong victim of circumstance and biology who refuses to be a victim anymore. Foreword Reviews Interesting, realistic, exciting, moving. I strongly recommend it. Harriette Simpson Arnow, author of The Dollmaker, and finalist for Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A powerful and emotionally gripping novel by one of the great psychosomatic medicine psychiatrists of our time. Highly recommended for all those fascinated by psychiatric illness, treatment, and the impact relationships can have on healing. Michelle Riba, M.D., M.S., Past President of American Psychiatric Association Monica Starkmans The End of Miracles is as cinematic as it is suspenseful. Rochel Urist, award-winning playwright

Author Bio

Dr. Monica Starkman is a psychiatrist who is a faculty member of the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Psychiatry in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is a clinician and a scientific researcher. Many of her publications in the scientific literature highlight concerns and conditions of women, such as the first study of womens reactions to the use of fetal monitoring during labor. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a recognized expert on the effects of stress hormones on mood and on brain structure. Dr. Starkman has also published in The New Republic and Vogue magazine. Dr. Starkman writes regularly for Psychology Today as one of their Experts.