Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571269617
Published:
03.05.2012
No of pages:
352
Other Editions: Paperback
The Storm at the Door
Stefan Merrill Block
Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premier mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the pace of the outside world accelerated into modernity.
Meanwhile, in a wintry New Hampshire village hours to the north, Frederick's wife Katharine struggled to hold together her fracturing family and to heal from the wounds of her husband's affliction. Nearly fifty years later, a writer in his twenties attempts to comprehend his grandparents' story from that turbulent time, a moment in his family's history that continues to cast a long shadow over his own young life.
Spanning generations and genres,
The Storm at the Door
blends memory and imagination, historical fact and compulsive storytelling, to offer a meditation on how our love for one another and the stories we tell ourselves allow us to endure. Quietly incisive and unflinchingly honest,
The Storm at the Door
juxtaposes the visceral physical world of Frederick's asylum with an exploration of how the subtlest damages can for ever alter a family's fate.
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
General Fiction
Genres & Themes:
Dysfunction;
Marriage;
Depression;
Illness;
America;
Imprisonment;
Families
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