Henry Carter Hull

A psychologist who also teaches at a school wrestles with his personal life, in which his former lover prepares to move away while pregnant with his child, and his professional life, in which he treats an exotic dancer with anxiety issues and tries to help a gifted, yet troubled, student in one of his night classes.

Elizabeth Egan, a woman who keeps rigid control of her life, home, interior design business, and six-year-old nephew, learns to let go of her unhappy past and rediscover the joy of childhood when she becomes acquainted with her nephew's imaginary friend, Ivan.

Aging actress Elfrida Phipps agrees to accompany recent widower Oscar Blundell to his estate in rural Scotland, where they, along with an assortment of visitors, including Elfrida's relative Carrie Sutton, Carrie's teenage niece Lucy, and textile executive Sam Howard, help each other heal their broken hearts in the days before Christmas.

Drew Silver, father of Casey, a pregnant teenager bound for Princeton, and a divorced drummer who makes his living playing in wedding bands, decides not to have emergency lifesaving heart surgery.

It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend Reva, an ex-boyfriend, and her drug-pushing psychiatrist are unwholesome. As her pill-popping intensifies, so does her isolation and determination...

"Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and her sister each fight to reassert their...

Reporter Nick Lasseter's pitiful life and career take a turn for the better when he stumbles upon a story that has the potential to make his career and bring him national celebrity.

Best friends Willa Jacobs and Jane Weston find their friendship tested when Ben, Willa's oldest friend, falls in love with Jane.

Manhattan attorney Tim Farnsworth, healthy, handsome, and in love with his wife, family, work, and home, is compelled to give it all up when he is stricken with a strange disorder that forces him to walk to the point of exhaustion.

Novelist Clarissa Burden, living in Hope, Florida, in an unhappy marriage with her deadbeat husband who resents her success, embarks on a twenty-four-hour journey of self-discovery which involves supernatural experiences and leads her to realize she must change her life.