Entry #12 - Swallow
Title: Swallow
Author: Tonya Plank
Trailer Producer: Tonya Plank
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Links:
http://www.tonyaplank.com/
Description:
Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer from small-town Florence Arizona, known not for the Renaissance but for housing a large prison. She’s just graduated from Yale Law School and landed her first job when, one evening she feels a fist-like ball form at the base of her throat. Diagnosed with the psychological condition Globus Hystericus, or Globus Sensation, this “fist-ball” wreaks havoc on her life, causing her difficulty eating, speaking, and eventually breathing.
With a cast of characters that includes a pornographer father, a sister with a knack for getting knocked up by denizens of the town pen, a tough-talking fashion maven, a painter of male nudes, an eccentric Sing Sing-residing client and a bevy of privileged Manhattan attorneys and judges, Swallow is a dark comedy about the distance that can separate fathers and daughters, and about a young woman’s struggle to survive in a world of pedigreed professionals for which she has no preparation.
