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Winner of the Award of Merit of the 2023 Christianity Today Book Awards Fiction Profound and compulsively readable Silas House author of SouthernmostNew from a fresh voice in literary fiction comes this riveting deepdive into one womans experience with bipolar disorder and GodHer mind has never failed her until an illfated dinner party

Meet Dr Susan Huffman wife to chancery court judge Samuel Ellison mother to adorable Ian and college professor on track for tenure She s a woman who has always lived by her mind with a plan and a purpose But then newintown Lorraine Davis accepts an invitation to Susan and Samuel s home and the mysterious visions begin Is God warning Susan about this newcomer And if so how can she protect her circle of friends her family and her life as she knows it

The Book of Susan is the spare and sympathetic recounting of a journey from derailment to diagnosis to the discovery of a lifetime