The story of julie davis, who you've mentioned. She's a young wife and mother battling an inner war between the love she feels for her family and the voice in her head that insists they'd be better off if she were not alive. The term post partem depression only appears once in the book. A lot of people got angry about the ending of your book. Why? If you knew that this is what you were writing, you wuld never write it.
Amy Koppelman penned A Mouthful of Air, a powerful novel years ahead of its time—and now, 20 years on, she discusses the film version of it she directed that hits theaters this month.