Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Narrator's title is apt as she describes her depression and mental breakdown while a literature professor. My interest was more geared to what she read, books by Toni Morrison, Helen DeWitt, A. S. Byatt and Anne Carson, and interesting exploration of her traumatic response to these, but I struggled to relate to her obsession with reading and suicidal ideation. Indeed, different readers need different things from the same book and reader responses can differ over time, but my bent is bibliophilia.

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