Are you trapped by a grief the world tells you to “get over”? The speculative novel The Poppy Fields dives into a controversial desert clinic promising an instant cure through a radical therapeutic sleep. Discover why true emotional healing is ultimately found not in institutional isolation, but in the messy, profound power of human connection forged on the open road.
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The Unquenchable Fire We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, but what happens when the
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