The Perfect Book for Every Mood
Feeling abandoned? Zestless? In their new book, The Novel Cure, bibliotherapists (yes, really) Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin prescribe skipping the pharmacy and heading to the library instead.
By Abbe Wright
Ailment: Low Self-Esteem
The book: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
How it can help: If a protagonist as downtrodden and hapless as Quoyle can get over the shocking death of his parents and his cheating wife, you can face—and conquer—anything.
How it can help: If a protagonist as downtrodden and hapless as Quoyle can get over the shocking death of his parents and his cheating wife, you can face—and conquer—anything.
From the October 2013 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine