Raincoast Books
Available: 12/13/05
6 x 9 · 304 pages
978-1-55192-781-7
CDN $24.95 · pb

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Sympathy

Dede Crane

When a car accident claims the lives of her husband and son, Kerry Taylor, a former ballet dancer, slips into a catatonic state. Her family’s last option is the Rosewood Clinic in Washington, D.C., where the enigmatic Dr. Michael Myatt has launched a controversial new therapy. The novel is framed around the seven distinct phases of Myatt’s radical “sympathy-based” healing. A supporting cast of five colourful lost souls adds earthy humour to the story of Kerry’s gradual return to consciousness. This is a gripping, moving and often surprisingly funny examination of the relationship between mind and body.

Dede Crane’s fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and published in numerous literary journals. She is a former professional ballet dancer who has studied Buddhist psychology at Naropa Institute in Colorado and psychokinetics at the Body-Mind Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lives in Victoria, B.C.