
At the time of its initial publication (1993), the L.A. Such as: does she exist? Does Doc? Do you?įunny, deep, profoundly disturbing and almost impossible to accurately describe, Empathy is one of the most exhilarating novels we’ve ever read.

She needs help, and she finds it - or does she? - in the person of Doc, a street-corner therapist who charges $10 and only sees each of his patients three times because “I get what I need out of it by the third session and you can too.” Doc diagnoses Anna with empathy, but it seems like her problems might be more complicated. Plus, she’s always falling for the wrong women. Dead friends and junkies on the sidewalk are a fact of life, and worsening political unrest is threatening to destroy the world as she knows it. is a thirtyish New Yorker living in the squalid East Village of 1990.


How can I be a woman and still be happy?” Anna O. “There’s something very important that I don’t understand.
