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"This is the story of an organization of people who got a bizarre and sudden thing happen to them. Their psychiatrist proceeded to go crazy and began injecting himself with drugs. The most useful and trustworthy man in their lives became a maniac in the real sense of the word." So commences the The Cabal, the amusing novella that forms the centerpiece of Ellen Gilchrist's gleaming new collection of reports. Dr. Jim Jaspers's patients include all the most visible individuals of Jackson, Mississippi--wealthy entrepreneurs, wealthy socialites, even the governor's princess. Unfortunately for these people, their precious psychiatrist suddenly moves mad himself, disclosing their deepest secrets and uncomfortable misdeeds to anyone who'll listen. The whole town moves crazy: some want to lock him up or, declining that, set up a convenient automobile accident. Others try to protect him. The others are busily revising their personal histories. The effect is a amusing, bitingly ironic tale, revealing that our deepest secrets invariably are those best known by others. The five reports that follow are basic Gilchrist, including another witty and wise account of Pass up Crystal by Traceleen. In one story, a happily married nurse finds herself pursued by a vintage high-school sweetheart. In another, a grandmother makes a cross-country pilgrimage from Kansas City to Mississippi to see her family. From a literary writer struggling in Hollywood to the strange appearance of 36 gold coins in a little Southern town, these reports will joy both old and new Gilchrist followers, with all the current friendliness, wit, and humor we've come to anticipate from her.
