Narrative theme: Health & illness Books

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capital's influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it. Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art...

Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That’s what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide in front of me.Since then, I've sworn...

A Clean Heart is a novel in the hands of a writer who knows his territory. The author went through treatment at age 17 and has been clean and sober since since 1981. He also worked in adolescent treatment centers when he was younger. There has been a...

Hannah alwaysfinds a way to get what she wants.Daughter to Chloe Cartwright, an eccentric prize-winning writer more interested in politics than parenthood, and sister to a rugby-star brother, Hannah has never excelled at much besides shoplifting...

A moving novel about the devotions of friendship and the power of love to heal, American Sycamore celebrates the American experiment and the importance of giving a damn.Rob Barrow's devotion to the American experiment has never wavered. For forty years...

Bad New Age mother seeks miracle cure in Germany but encounters her past with an aloe plant instead.A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died...

Who would you be without your memory? When Katherine Keene is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, her four grown children must grapple with how to care for her - and how to remake their relationships with each other. And then there's the secret that...

Dick, a blunt and bawdy Philly sports fan, finds himself in an assisted living facility following a stroke. Determined to regain his independence, he does daily laps around the grounds with his quad cane. But when recovery never comes, and days swell...

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalised as hysterics reveal what history ignored'Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?' wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts,...

"Don't the people who can't be saved need heroes, too?"Since Sam Carter was a child, she dreamt of becoming a real-life superhero. After experiencing the loss of her brother at a young age, Sam realized that maybe not all heroes fit the same mold. On...

Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, bestselling French author Frederic and his ten-year-old daughter travel the globe in search of immortality.What does the man who has everything fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby want for his fiftieth birthday?...

An inventive coming-of-age novel from acclaimed French novelist Joy Sorman, Life Sciences boldly investigates the female condition, bodily autonomy, and the failings of modern medicine as one young woman confronts a centuries-old, matrilineal curse.Ninon...

A riveting debut thriller from one of New York's most eminent surgeons,Night Harvestfollows the bizarre disappearance of patients from a Manhattan hospital into the murky underground of the city.Fourth-year medical student Demetri Makropolis has been...

A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients-young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally...