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A therapist is spilling his guts, pouring out his story to his former mentor. The cases are horrific. The heartbroken teenager not allowed to see or hold the baby she bore from her father's rapes, the young man whose mother suicided when he was nine, the woman petrified by the snakes and rats she sees crawling on her ceiling. Under all the stress and with no support from his boss, the therapist, Cyril, has a breakdown. But he comes back and tries to help one last patient. Tillie is a brilliant young woman, selfish, reckless and obnoxious, but also touching and courageous. She can't forgive herself for alienating her husband through her many scrapes and blunders, her bizarre terrors, and the psychotic crisis when she thought she had to be a saint in order to keep existing. At times, she has fits of sobbing, bitter rages and storms of self-abasement. Cyril is torn by emotions he barely understands when Tillie wants to quit the treatment.

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The Cries is a splendidly human book, timely, incisive and important. Set in the world of New York psychotherapy, it excavates the arts of listening and understanding. It mirrors the city itself: all the voices, all the clamour, all the pain, all ""the cries no one hears, the cries under the words."" Ultimately it finds its heart in those people who attempt the vital work of repair. Samuel Beckett once said that it's the job of the artist now to find a form that accommodates the mess. In this rich and moving novel, Adams has discovered such a form. --Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award, author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon

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