The silent patient audiobook1/3/2023 Presidential Inauguration, she became both the inheritor of a long tradition and a herald of something new. When Amanda Gorman read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 U.S. Poetry can preserve the fleeting present, encircle the past, and help envision alternative futures. In an era as urgent as ours, many poems strive for timelessness precisely by being timely. Good poems capture a moment and sustain it. But it turns out (the twist!) that Kathy cheated six years ago - with Gabriel, Alicia’s husband - and it was then that Theo, the true psychopath, broke into Alicia’s house, held her captive and exposed the affair, triggering a long-dormant trauma that incites her to shoot Gabriel in the face.What we call occasional poetry-verse written for or about an event, often ceremonial-reminds us that all poems have occasions, or should. (Shady men, each with motive … dun dun dun.) Theo’s narration about his actress wife, Kathy - who he discovers is cheating on him - is intercut as though concurrent with Alicia’s treatment. (We hear her perspective through diary entries, oddly presented with back-and-forth dialogue, like no journal I have ever seen.) Theo embarks on desperate investigations into Alicia’s life, insisting on meetings with her jealous gallerist Jean-Felix, her spurned brother-in-law Max and her semi-estranged, debt-riddled cousin Paul. Theo, who spent two decades in therapy exploring trauma induced by a cruel father, is hopelessly compelled toward Alicia, who suffered a similar upbringing and is desperate to make her start talking about her crime. After the murder, she stops speaking entirely and is placed in the Grove, a secure psychiatric unit where Theo applies for a job six years later - expressly to meet, and treat, the still-silent Alicia. London-based psychotherapist Theo Farber becomes obsessed with Alicia Berenson, a rising-star painter who’s convicted of murdering her fashion-photographer husband Gabriel. Here’s a recap, for those who have read the novel in full - and for anyone else who is a glutton for spoilers.
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