Title: The story hour
Description: An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store. Determined to empower Lakshmi as a woman who feels valued in her own right, Maggie abandons protocol, and soon doctor and patient have become close friends. When Maggie and Lakshmi open up and share long-buried secrets, the revelations will jeopardize their close bond, shake their faith in each other, and force them to confront painful choices.
Subjects: Self-confidence, Contemporary Women, Secrets, Friendship, Choice, Emotions, Fiction, Literary, General, Young women, Amerikanisches Englisch, Forgiveness, Psychological fiction, Self-esteem, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Contemporary Women, FICTION / General, Fiction, psychological, Young women, fiction, Women psychologists, African American women, East Indians, Secrecy
People: A. Andrae