Patrick D. Hahn's 3 favorite reads in 2025

This is a story worthy of a modern-day Sophocles, and author Jones is up to the task, never flinching from the horrifying details of what happened that January afternoon, while portraying, in elegant, poetic prose, the faith in God and the love that has sustained this family in the face of the seemingly unforgivable.

This is a horrifying tale of medical gaslighting and devastation wrought by a pharmaceutical industry which regards our bodies, and our children’s bodies, as nothing more than terrain for them to ride roughshod over.

As the author points out, we need to see depression as a flaw in neither chemistry nor character, but as a perfectly understandable reaction to individual and social circumstances, and to work to find meaningful work and foster human connection -- rather than to dull our emotions (negative and positive alike) with brain-disabling drugs.