The Incurables - 9780268022310

The IncurablesAuthor(s): Mark Brazaitis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268022310, 978-0268022310\nSynopsis\nIn his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors of mental illness to the beguiling and baffling complexities of romantic and familial love. \n\n In the book's opening story, \""The Bridge,\"" a new sheriff must confront a suicide epidemic as well as his own deteriorating mental health. In \""Classmates,\"" a man sets off to visit the wife of a classmate who has killed himself. Is he hoping to write a story about his classmate or to observe the aftermath of what his own suicide attempt, if successful, would have been like? In the title s.