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Invisible As Air, a novel, Zoe Fishman

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Invisible As Air

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Zoe Fishman

a novel

Sylvie Snow is a hard-working career woman, wife, and mother who lives in a beautiful house and drives a beautiful car. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, and the PTA-ing. She's planning a Bar Mitzvah for her movie-loving twelve-year-old son, Teddy, even though he's disinterested. Sylvie is also newly addicted to the Oxycontin intended for her husband, Paul who has just broken his ankle. For three years, Sylvie has repressed her grief about the heartbreaking stillbirth of her daughter, Delilah. On the morning of the anniversary of her death, when she can't face doing one more thing, Sylvie takes one, only one, of her husband's discarded pain pills. And suddenly feels patient, kinder, and miraculously relaxed. Sylvie tells herself that the tablets are temporary, just a gift, until the supply runs out, but days turn into weeks, and Sylvie slips slowly into a nightmare. At first, Paul and Teddy are entirely unaware, but this changes quickly

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