Book Launch Announcement: "The Nature of Pain" by Mandi Fugate Sheffel

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 of kinship and connection to place while exposing the bitter truths of a community transformed by opioids. With candid, lyrical prose, Fugate Sheffel reveals what life is really 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 must be 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 pain them.