Introduction Recently I had the painful pleasure of reading two exceptionally fine novels that examine the effects of mentally unstable people on their families. In Jody Hesler’s Without You Here, a niece is haunted by her favorite aunt’s suicide, while Pat Spears’s Hotel Impala delivers a devastating portrait of two children confronting the chaos and […]
Focus on Mental Health: Donna Meredith Interviews Jody Hobbs Hesler, author of “Without You Here,” and Pat Spears, author of “Hotel Impala”
Filed Under: Author Profiles & Interviews Tagged With: Donna Meredith, homelessness, Hotel Impala, Jody Hobbs Hesler, mental illness, Pat Spears, suicide, unhoused, Without You Here