The Nature of Pain

Roots, Recovery, and Redemption amid the Opioid Crisis
In The Nature of Pain, Fugate Sheffel recounts coming of age during the opioid epidemic of the late nineties and early 2000s.
"One by one, the mourners came to me. I didn't want to talk. I didn't want to discuss what might have happened. I didn't want to be here. The lump in my throat was suffocating. I'm not meant to grieve like this. I wanted to go somewhere without all these eyes. Pain is easier to digest in solitude."Mandi Fugate Sheffel was born in the heart of rural small-town America, in a place where "wild teaberry grows" and with creeks "as clear and cold as nature would allow."As a curious, sensitive child raised in a challenging environment, she formed a deep bond with her cousin Eric. As the pair grew up together, they sought a sense ofbelonging, and drugs and alcohol provided a temporary escape from the harsh realities of their lives. Everything shifted when Purdue Pharma launched aggressive marketing campaigns for OxyContin in central Appalachia.In The Nature of Pain, Fugate Sheffel recounts coming of age during the opioid epidemic of the late nineties and early 2000s. She illuminates the importance ofkinship and connection to place while exposing the bitter truths of a community transformed by opioids. With candid, lyrical prose, Fugate Sheffel reveals what life isreally like for people in active addiction and recovery. Her lived experience as an eastern Kentuckian affected by the opioid crisis is an underrepresented story that mustbe heard. Fugate Sheffel's memoir is an aching tale of empathy for modern mountain folks—of love and grief, family and place, and the addictions that continue to painthem.

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