Shy Creatures
Clare Chambers
A mute man with a waist-length beard, hidden away for decades, is finally discovered and taken to a psychiatric hospital, where an art therapist becomes determined to learn his story. Based on a true case, and so tender about kindness.
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A tennis-champ-turned-housewife climbs into her apartment pool one warm November afternoon in 1957 and simply won't get out. A tiny, tense novel about a marriage cracking open in real time.