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When I think of my hell days, I think of crime scenes. Familiar sites, made uncanny with violence.
In the fluorescent tedium of a call center in 2018, acclaimed novelist Laura Elizabeth Woollett finds herself meticulously plotting her own death—until her period arrives, and equilibrium with it. After years of dismissing these monthly turns, she’s diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Then, at thirty-three, she becomes pregnant and experiences a reprieve, but will it last?
Through case studies, interviews, extensive medical research, forays into history, true crime, and algorithmic rabbit-holes, Woollett looks beyond herself to assemble a chorus of PMDD sufferers, along with dedicated scientists and clinicians. Navigating the impossible terrain between a potentially fatal disorder and treatments that can be almost as dangerous, Hell Days is a testament to the precarity and dignity of life as a periodically suicidal person in an often-brutal world.
Praise for West Girls:
“Vacillating between humor and heartbreak, this 2024 Stella Prize–longlisted book is a compelling novel that will find its audience among fans of morally ambiguous tales and deliberate writing.”
—Booklist
“Woollett takes the theme of ‘becoming’ to the darker side; whilst subverting assumptions of fixed identities, she poses uneasy questions around cultural appropriation, racially and sexually structured gaze under capitalism, and disciplined bodies.”
—Intan Paramaditha, author of Apple and Knife
Praise for Beautiful Revolutionary:
“[T]raverses the uneasy terrain between historical fiction and all that cannot be known about the inner lives of real people. History blends with mythology … [D]evastating … Weighty and disquieting.”
—Kirkus
“A riveting tale of love, obsession and devotion. If you loved The Girls or Netflix's Wild Wild Country, this one's for you.”
—Elle
“Woollett turns a dark chapter in US history into a deeply human, satisfying read for fans of Emma Cline’s The Girls.”
—Booklist