Our most recent title was The Good Greek Girl by Maria Katsonis. This novel is, in many ways, the standard account of the growing pains of a young woman in a Greek culture. Maria is a high achiever, who fulfils every expectation, except the one most important to her father: wife and mother. When she informs her parents she's gay, her father reacts violently towards her, and this triggers the mental breakdown which becomes the focus of the novel.
Maria's time in a mental hospital describes beautifully the horrors of incarceration and the difficulties of re-adjustment to a normal life. Yet for all this soul searching, readers may well feel that it's not so much her gay status that's the problem, but an inability to face her very real problems of a lack of empathy towards others in the midst of a high profile job.
Maria's time in a mental hospital describes beautifully the horrors of incarceration and the difficulties of re-adjustment to a normal life. Yet for all this soul searching, readers may well feel that it's not so much her gay status that's the problem, but an inability to face her very real problems of a lack of empathy towards others in the midst of a high profile job.
