50 - A Book That Features a Character with Chronic Pain

[Laura Ruth]

It's not the main point of the book, but How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, uses her experience of chronic pain as an example of facing what life throws at you.

[Michele]

I read Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned by Alvin Townley. Between the poorly healed dislocated joints and broken bones, and the torture the POWs suffered, there was definite chronic pain. It could also be used in the chosen family category, because their experience made those men brothers for life.

[Dubhease]

I read The Woman Who Died a Lot. Thursday Next has been injured and relies on a lot of pain medication in this book.

[Jennifer]

If anyone likes historical mysteries the Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom is very good. Shardlake has chronic pain from a malformed spine.
Dissolution

[Alex (Pucksandpaperbacks)]

Logistical question - Are we interpreting "featured" as the main character? Or would a book with a side character who has a good amount of page time work?

[Laura Ruth]

If it doesn't specify "main character," then I think side characters qualify.

[Trish]

I wasn't sure where to look for this one, but I just read a book I'd say qualifies (or, at least, I count as qualifies): The Maid and the Crocodile.

The MC had her foot mangled in an accident when she was eight years old, and has been walking with a cane ever since. She's often in pain, and walking any distance, or using stairs makes it worse.

Afro-fantasy, aimed at young adult.

[Sherri]

I read Margo's Got Money Troubles. 5 stars

[Katherine]

Neuromancer by William Gibson has been on my TBR for a long time. This book fits this category.

[Anshita]

I read Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors. I read it for a different prompt, but I couldn't find a book that I found interesting to read for this one. The blurb reads, "The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in. But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves."

[Ellen]

I am going to try to read by Jodi Picoult.