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“The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers,Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing and the Science ofSuffering”
By Melanie Thernstrom
Melanie Thernstrom has a congenital neck-and-shoulder problemthat has kept her in constant pain for the past 10 years. Pain issomething you can’t stop thinking about, and Thernstrom is the kindof person who can’t stop thinking anyway.
The fruit of her misery is this big, discursive book. Chronicpain affects 70 million Americans. Thernstrom has looked into painfrom every angle, so she nestles her own inside a tangle ofhistory, science, religion and reflection.
Thernstrom’s motive is to understand how people overcome theirpain so that she can learn to control her own. The answer liessomewhere in the brain.
A neurophysiologist tells her, “Everyone is born with a systemdesigned to turn off pain,” which is what happens, for example,after a serious injury: The brain first counters the pain impulsesand later exaggerates them, an evolutionary refinement enablingflight when the shark bites off your arm and enforcing rest lateron.
The neurophysiologist continues, “There isn’t an obviousmechanism to turn off other diseases, like Parkinson’s. With pain,the system is there, but we don’t have control over the dial.”
The last part of the book is about controlling the dial. Newbrain-scan technology allowing subjects to observe and modify theirown mental activity offers great promise. But as with cancerresearch, the progress is heartening, the cure elusive.
During her decade of chronic pain, the author married, became amother, and wrote a series of magazine articles as well as thisvery smart book. Her pain hasn’t gone away, but she has found waysto modify it or at least deal with it. That isn’t a storybookending, and this isn’t a storybook. It isn’t a tragedy, either.
“The Whisperers”
By John Connolly
The effect of war’s aftermath on soldiers as they try toreadjust to civilian life has become a recurring theme in crimefiction during the past decade.
In “The Whisperers,” John Connolly uses his series aboutvolatile private detective Charlie Parker to show a different sideof the stress and fears that soldiers cope with returning fromIraq. Connolly has expertly straddled the mystery and the horrorgenres in his series, paying homage to both but never allowing thesupernatural to overpower his realistic story.
Now, without taking sides about the politics or the ethics ofthe war in Iraq, Connolly delivers a thoughtful, measured tale thatis empathetic to the returning soldiers without preaching. Hisninth novel illustrates how an “issues” thriller should never losesight of being a thriller first with the issues woven into thefabric of the story.
Parker is hired by Bennett Patchett to find out why his son,Damien, committed suicide a few weeks after coming home to Maine.Unlike some of his fellow soldiers, Damien had returned “justfine.” The young man had “a good war;” he didn’t feel guilt overfighting, wasn’t haunted by the deaths of some of his friends andwas thinking of re-enlisting.
Parker’s investigation uncovers the suicides of other recentlyreturned members of Damien’s unit, and a smuggling ring dealing inancient Iraqi artifacts being moved between Maine and Canada. Thestolen treasures or at least one in particular may havesupernatural powers that can drive a thief crazy.
That’s something that Parker, who has visions of his deceasedwife and
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