Ambient Anxiety

It’s 3:17 a.m. and the refrigerator sounds like a warning. That is the feeling Mark E. Jemy chases down in this book. He isn’t talking about the big, loud panic attacks that send you to the hospital. He is talking about the hum. That low-grade vibration in the walls that makes you feel like you are waiting for a shoe to drop even when the room is empty. It is the phantom buzz in your pocket and the shallow breath you don’t even realize you are holding until your chest hurts. This book is for anyone who has turned their life into a constant state of bracing for impact. It is about the exhaustion of being perpetually ready for a crisis that never quite arrives and the terrifying silence that hits when the noise finally stops.