Elaine Kraf

A haunting novel exploring a mother's fierce love for her disabled son as she grapples with her own mental health, by the author of the feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd Street. For Clarence's mother, life revolves around her young son; she takes him to see specialists to find the cause of his blindness and developmental delays, protects him...

The feminist cult classic about a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms. Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York's Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by 'radiances'—episodes of joyous, reckless unreality. Under the influence of 'radiances,' she becomes...

I Am Clarence is a haunting novel exploring a mother's fierce love for her disabled son as she grapples with her own mental health, by the author of the feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd Street. According to Dr. Hovenclock, health meant wanting things. What would I have to pretend to want before he would let me leave? I...