Pink Soap: A Novel

A sharp, spare, and devastating debut novel, Anju Gaston’s Pink Soap is a darkly funny story of one woman’s emergence from an episode of madness.

A young woman has a manic episode that leads to her hospitalization, during which her one request—that her cell phone be taken away from her—is ignored, so she ends up offending and alienating everyone in her life. When she is finally released, she desperately needs to start again but has no idea how. Her life seems strange to her, and the episode,...