The storm at the door - Stefan Block

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.

Meanwhile,
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.

Spanning
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.