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50 - A Book That Features a Character with Chronic Pain
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Laura Ruth
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Apr 25, 2025 12:38PM
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.
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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.
I read The Woman Who Died a Lot. Thursday Next has been injured and relies on a lot of pain medication in this book.
If anyone likes historical mysteries the Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom is very good. Shardlake has chronic pain from a malformed spine. Dissolution
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?
If it doesn't specify "main character," then I think side characters qualify.
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.
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