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Hysteria by Jessica Gross

4.0

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A kind of odd (though not odd in that weird fiction sense) character sketch of a woman who has turned to orgasms to deal with constant social anxiety and the pain that her daddy doesn't love her in a physical sense. Lot of descriptions in this one, though none overly explicit concerning getting off. It also lends credence to my fortune-cookie-I-have-no-proof theory that people of wealth will create problems when they don't have real ones. And there's a bit of brain melting going on here. The growth of the narrator was minimal: self-absorbed to a Kanye degree, compulsive, and needy from start to finish. Was hoping the Freud angle would go off into some full-blown adventure angle, but...