Sign-In
Cart
The Flowers of Trauma
Paperback
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798274088947
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A meditation on grief, resilience, and transcendence. The Flowers of Trauma is a luminous novel exploring how inherited and personal grief can be transformed into meaning. Through six interconnected lives-haunted by Holocaust memory, AIDS-era loss, and intimate violence-the book examines how pain shapes identity, intellect, and resilience. At its heart is Sarah, whose declaration that the cure is facing the tide that terrifies captures the story's philosophy: healing arises from confronting, not avoiding, the darkest wounds. Interwoven with literary allusion and psychological insight, this is a meditation on beauty's redemptive power and the possibility of transcendence in the face of profound suffering. Ron Morin is the author of A Second Innocence and If Pain Could Make Music. His play, The Chimney, won the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Festival Award, and was produced by Theatre in the Pines.
He has a degree in French literature and a Master's in school psychology from UMass/Boston. He studied for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has taught French, special needs students, and been executive director of a social service agency.
The American Red Cross honored him with an Enduring Hero award. He also received a commendation from the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for bravery in saving a life, when he res-cued a woman from a burning building in Boston.
The American Red Cross honored him with an Enduring Hero award. He also received a commendation from the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for bravery in saving a life, when he res-cued a woman from a burning building in Boston.
Also from
Morin, Ron
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
From $19.99
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
$33.25
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
$5.99
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
$9.50
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
From $9.99