Swallow by Tonya Plank

Posted by Pearl Fiction Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer from small-town Florence Arizona, known not for the Renaissance but for housing a large prison. She’s just graduated from Yale Law School and landed her first job when, one evening she feels a fist-like ball at the base of her throat.

Diagnosed with psychological condition Globus Hystericus, this “fist-ball” wreaks havoc, causing her difficulty eating, speaking, and eventually breathing.

With a cast of characters that includes a pornographer father, a sister with a knack for getting knocked up by denizens of the town pen, a tough-talking fashion maven, a painter of male nudes, an eccentric Sing Sing-residing client and a bevy of privileged Manhattan attorneys and judges, Swallow is a dark comedy about the distance that can separate fathers and daughters, and about a young woman’s struggle to survive in a world of pedigreed professionals for which she has no preparation.

[tags]lawyers, anxiety disorders, New York, legal fiction, women’s fiction, psychology[/tags]

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