A Story Can Be Told about Pain
Paperback
Series: Nunatak First Fiction, Book 61
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781774391167
Publisher: NeWest Press
Published: May 1 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When an accident upends their lives, fourteen-year-old Shiloh and her mother Ruth must leave their idyllic home to make a new life in the city. They find housing -- through an evangelical church operating out of a strip mall -- that backs onto the grounds of the abandoned Pacific Hospital for the Mind. Their lives begin to intersect with their new neighbours -- Raymond, a handyman whose painful past is coming to a head; Dave, the disillusioned pastor looking for a new wife; and Madeleine, a 90-year-old former nurse who continues to make pilgrimages to the graves of the patients she once cared for. As Shiloh becomes involved with an undercurrent of teenagers who frequent the grounds of the ruined asylum, her rebellion and grief push her towards choices she can never take back.
With evocative, lyrical prose reminiscent of Emily Ruskovich and Marilynne Robinson, A Story Can Be Told About Pain is a profound meditation on loss and survival, a novel that reminds us why we tell each other stories--to revel in the beauty of language, to find solace, and to boldly confront the truth in order to heal .
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