To the outside world Julie Davis has it allâ€”wealth, a doting husband, an apartment on the Upper West Side, and an adorable new baby boy. But underneath the perfect exterior, she is paralyzed

A Mouthful Of Air

To the outside world Julie Davis has it allâ€”wealth, a doting husband, an apartment on the Upper West Side, and an adorable new baby boy. But underneath the perfect exterior, she is paralyzed by an over-whelming sense of shame and inadequacy.
A Mouthful of Air begins a few weeks after Julieâ€™s suicide attempt and on the eve of her sonâ€™s first birthday. Desperate to lead a "normal" life, Julie tries to be thankful for the good things, but her emotional demons persist. In the midst of her struggle, she discovers that she is pregnant for a second time, and is forced to come off the medication that has given her the buoyancy to survive.
Through sparse, elegant prose, Amy Koppelmanâ€™s brutally honest portrayal of family and self shows the reader that real problems are indiscriminate of money or birthright. A Mouthful of Air brings to light the complexity and fragility of the human psyche.

A Mouthful Of Air