Alicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the University of Chicago. And a paranoid schizophrenic who does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby.Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions,Stella Marisis a searching, profoundly moving companion toThe Passenger. It is a powerful enquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and life itself by one of America’s finest writers.