Marcy Chen is a self confessed agoraphobic and her Yellow & Green: Not an Autobiography of Marcy Chen sure does seem like an angst filled autobiography of her living with Agoraphobia.

Leave Angst Behind

I looked up Agoraphobia and the description does show how much angst and anxiety an agoraphobic person must endure daily, when even the simplest tasks become a terrifying event. But don’t be satisfied with just a cold and clinical description of the condition of agoraphobia. Try walking a mile in an agoraphobic’s trembling shoes, or better still, experience an autobiographical year of angst with an agoraphobic in Yellow & Green: Not an Autobiography of Marcy Chen

Yellow & Green: Not an Autobiography of Marcy Chen

(Unrelated and irrelevant note: I have to laugh sometimes at Google’s interpretation of ‘relevant’. Seemingly, my use of the keyword ‘autobiography’ equals ‘Auto parts’ and ‘Angst’ is an opportunity to publish ads in the German language.)

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This is for YOU!

According to this angst filled review, in Lipstick Traces, Twenty-year old Miss Z has run away to be with a rock star known as B. As she follows him around the world, she suffers angst in hopes of saving him from himself and his darkness. In trying to save him, she loses herself. Miss Z becomes so caught up in wanting to believe false promises – what I truly feel her heart knows. As she desperately tries to hang on to his promises of eternal love, she sees him acting in ways that do not reflect his words. She also becomes caught up in the angst causing musician lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock and roll.

As Miss Z is consumed and almost destroyed by B and his lifestyle, she hits the bottom of her angst and realizes that she has to go off on her own. She works through some serious angst issues and learns who her true friends really are. Trying to climb back up, she returns home and begins to have some healing with issues that she was dealing with there involving her parents. Her experiences help her to better understand their own actions in dealing with a huge loss. Working through her angst helps Miss Z to not only find out who she is, but also how strong she is.

Feel the angst with Miss Z in Kathlea Azzurra Rowland’s angst novel Lipstick Traces. You’ll find more emerging literature with angst in my angst category.

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High School Asylum by Adam Dustus

“Growing up is no easy task … but try doing it after a near death experience and the death of your father.”  While High School Asylum takes a raw unfiltered look at some of the worst aspects of the American educational system, one will also find the very best of human qualities in a teenager struggling to overcome angst and alienation to find his identity in Skyview High School.

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