1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics, Alicia contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, this is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to "The Passenger," a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.
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