Kyra
By Carol Gilligan
256 pages. Random House 

Yes, she gets us. She always did. Carol Gilligan, the psychologist who transmuted our understanding of the female psyche with her 1982 study, In a Different Voice, breaks new ground with Kyra (Random House), a sensuous first novel exploring the permeable boundaries of women's inner and outer worlds. Kyra is an urban architect imprisoned by her tragic, romantic past; Andreas is the inventive theater director whose passion tempts and terrifies her. At the novel's hub: the intuitive interplay between Kyra and her therapist, Greta, laying bare the “revolutionary emotion” of love.