{"product_id":"the-storm-at-the-door","title":"Stefan Block: The Storm at the Door [2012] paperback","description":"Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient  in the country's premiere 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile,  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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning  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.","brand":"Block, Stefan","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48150086549843,"sku":"XV80571269617","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/block-stefan-the-storm-at-the-door-xv80571269617-55953397711187.jpg?v=1728342860","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-storm-at-the-door","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}