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[(Trouble)] [by: Jesse Kellerman]
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Published November 1, 2007
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Jesse Kellerman
50 books284 followersJesse Kellerman was born in Los Angeles in 1978. His award-winning plays have been produced throughout the United States and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Most recently, he received the Princess Grace Award, given to America’s most promising young playwright. He lives with his wife in New York City.
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August 16, 2025
MENTAL ILLNESS!
This story is the author’s second effort at writing a novel, and it appears to not be any improvement over the first. Written by Jesse Kellerman and published by Jove Books, New York in 2006, this novel is a mystery thriller about a third-year medical student named Jonah Stem. Jonah is working as a Med student at St. Aggy’s hospital in New York City, where and the other Med students are regularly bullied by the Residents.
The story begins with Jonah not leaving the hospital quickly enough after the end of his shift to avoid being drafted by one of the Residents to assist in a major surgery by an Attending surgeon. He rushed to the operating room before he had time to don his booties, and the case is peritonitis, which can be quite messy. Unfortunately, the patient’s bowel burst, and Jonah’s shoes were ruined by the mess of blood and tissue that ensued. He needed to buy new shoes. Luckily for him, NYC is a city that never sleeps, so he walks towards Times Square, intending to purchase a new pair of shoes. That’s when he heard the woman screaming.
Instead of running away, Jonah ran towards the screaming where he encountered an injured woman on all fours with a man standing over her threatening her. The man had a knife. Jonah had quickness and strength. When it was over, the man lay dead with a knife wound in his neck, but Jonah had a concussion from his head hitting the pavement. He managed to dial 911 and shortly was taken to the very hospital where he worked. While he was diagnosed and cleaned up, he was interviewed by a member of the District Attorney’s police staff. He told her the entire truth about the matter as he remembered it, and she told him the woman who had been attacked had survived with minor injuries. Jonah decided to go home to get some sleep, and to take the day off because of his head injury.
The surviving woman was named Eve Gones (pronounced like “Jones”) and she becomes the second woman in Jonah’s life. The first was a woman named Hannah, who Jonah loved very much. Unfortunately, Hannah’s mother passed away from a rare disease that slowly eroded the patient’s mind and memory, resulting in a severe mental illness. The disease is hereditary and terminal, and Hannah has inherited it from her mother. Hannah’s father, George comes to help take care of her, but Jonah remains committed to her and her care, traveling to her home every month to visit, and to assist George in her care. Most of the time, she no longer knows who Jonah is.
In the meantime, Eve makes contact with Jonah and initiates a frenzied sexual relationship with him. She soon becomes jealous of Jonah’s continued attention to Hannah, and the fireworks begin. It doesn’t take long for Jonah to realize that Eve is also behaving irrationally at times. So now he has two psycho women on his hands, not to mention that the brother of the man Jonah had killed was filing an expensive wrongful death lawsuit against Jonah. Jonah has a lot of troubles at this point, not to mention the task of trying to complete medical school with a sadistic resident who seems to hate him and pick on him relentlessly.
At this point I found the story to be tiring, and I did not really like it very much. I award only three of a possible five stars and a recommendation to skip his one.
This story is the author’s second effort at writing a novel, and it appears to not be any improvement over the first. Written by Jesse Kellerman and published by Jove Books, New York in 2006, this novel is a mystery thriller about a third-year medical student named Jonah Stem. Jonah is working as a Med student at St. Aggy’s hospital in New York City, where and the other Med students are regularly bullied by the Residents.
The story begins with Jonah not leaving the hospital quickly enough after the end of his shift to avoid being drafted by one of the Residents to assist in a major surgery by an Attending surgeon. He rushed to the operating room before he had time to don his booties, and the case is peritonitis, which can be quite messy. Unfortunately, the patient’s bowel burst, and Jonah’s shoes were ruined by the mess of blood and tissue that ensued. He needed to buy new shoes. Luckily for him, NYC is a city that never sleeps, so he walks towards Times Square, intending to purchase a new pair of shoes. That’s when he heard the woman screaming.
Instead of running away, Jonah ran towards the screaming where he encountered an injured woman on all fours with a man standing over her threatening her. The man had a knife. Jonah had quickness and strength. When it was over, the man lay dead with a knife wound in his neck, but Jonah had a concussion from his head hitting the pavement. He managed to dial 911 and shortly was taken to the very hospital where he worked. While he was diagnosed and cleaned up, he was interviewed by a member of the District Attorney’s police staff. He told her the entire truth about the matter as he remembered it, and she told him the woman who had been attacked had survived with minor injuries. Jonah decided to go home to get some sleep, and to take the day off because of his head injury.
The surviving woman was named Eve Gones (pronounced like “Jones”) and she becomes the second woman in Jonah’s life. The first was a woman named Hannah, who Jonah loved very much. Unfortunately, Hannah’s mother passed away from a rare disease that slowly eroded the patient’s mind and memory, resulting in a severe mental illness. The disease is hereditary and terminal, and Hannah has inherited it from her mother. Hannah’s father, George comes to help take care of her, but Jonah remains committed to her and her care, traveling to her home every month to visit, and to assist George in her care. Most of the time, she no longer knows who Jonah is.
In the meantime, Eve makes contact with Jonah and initiates a frenzied sexual relationship with him. She soon becomes jealous of Jonah’s continued attention to Hannah, and the fireworks begin. It doesn’t take long for Jonah to realize that Eve is also behaving irrationally at times. So now he has two psycho women on his hands, not to mention that the brother of the man Jonah had killed was filing an expensive wrongful death lawsuit against Jonah. Jonah has a lot of troubles at this point, not to mention the task of trying to complete medical school with a sadistic resident who seems to hate him and pick on him relentlessly.
At this point I found the story to be tiring, and I did not really like it very much. I award only three of a possible five stars and a recommendation to skip his one.
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