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The Outward Room by Millen Brand is a powerful and deeply moving novel first published in 1937. It is widely regarded as an important work of psychological and social fiction.
The story centers on Harriet Demuth, a young woman who suffers a nervous breakdown following a personal tragedy and is confined to a mental institution. Dissatisfied with her treatment and determined to reclaim her life, she makes a bold escape and ventures into New York City during the era of the Great Depression.