The Woman in the Window

by A.J. Finn

Watching is like nature photography: You don’t interfere with the wildlife.

As a doctor, I say that the sufferer seeks an environment she can control. Such is the clinical take. As a sufferer (and that is the word), I say that agoraphobia hasn’t ravaged my life so much as become it.

“My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”