The Porthole

by Joanna Howard

Helena Desir, a filmmaker of some reputation, arrives at a country asylum for sufferers of psychic exhaustion after a tragic accident on the location of one of her films. Afflicted by insomnia and disorientation, the elusive and volatile Helena seems bullheaded in a determination to end her career in film, despite her studio's insistence that she could and should return. She begins her rest cure at Jaquith House with the eccentric Dr. Duvaux and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1963270282
• ISBN13: 9781963270280
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: McSweeney's