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The Journal of Nicholas the American
Leigh Kennedy

Published 1986 by Atlantic Monthly Press · 204 pages
Nebula Nominee 1987
Science FictionSynopsis
College student Nicholas Dal is a tele-empath who involuntarily experiences the emotions of everyone around him, with overwhelming feelings capable of triggering seizures. Living in semi-drunken isolation just to stay sane, Nicholas finds his careful defenses threatened when a psychiatrist begins investigating him and his growing feelings for a classmate force him to confront his family's cursed legacy of persecution and madness.
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This was the author's debut novel
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US
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9780871131089