"An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's every need, while her favorite grandson, the cheerful and gregarious Sid, entertains her with his guitar. But it is only when Sid's younger brother-Serious Son, pathologically...

When Margaret's fianc�e, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the responsible Celia...

Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?

Embracing a philosophy that life is a movie produced by God, neural health patient Pat Peoples endeavors to win back his estranged wife by making strategic sacrifices and coordinating their communications through a depressed widow.

A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.

With the help of bizarre messages that keep appearing in her life, teenage Wilhelmina tries to overcome grief and depression brought on by the national trauma of 2016-2020 and the loss of her beloved aunt.

"Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about, because he's Black, and her parents are racist. Weighed by a depression she can't seem to shake,...

"Zia remembers the exact night the Shadoom arrived. One moment she was laughing with her best friends, and the next a dark room of shadows had crept into her chest...Until Zia discovers an old family heirloom: the C. Scuro Dictionary...Hidden within its magical pages is a mysterious blue eraser...When Zia starts to erase words that remind her of the Shadoom, they disappear one by one from the world around her...But things quickly dissolve into chaos,...

Told in two voices, eleven-year-old Jack and the imaginary friend he thought he'd outgrown, George, find each other again when Jack's family hits a crisis.