![]() ![]() Spurred into action, Nat immediately takes a leave of absence from work and heads north to find her sister. For most guests, that means six months, which is about the amount of time Kit’s been away when Nat gets the alarming missive, warning her that the sender will tell Kit what she’s done unless she comes to Wildwood to confess in person. It’s the kind of place where you surrender your cellphone at the gate, and commit yourself to cutting yourself off from the outside world for the duration of your stay. ![]() Kit has apparently gone on a long sabbatical to an exclusive island resort in Maine called Wildwood. Natalie Collins is a hard-charging marketing executive whose underlying guilt at not being a good enough caretaker for her younger sister comes to a head when she receives a cryptic e-mail. Delving deep into the subject of trauma and how it warps people, it examines the lengths some people will go to in order to overcome the phobias born of their pasts, no matter what the cost. Told from multiple perspectives, Stephanie Wrobel’s sophomore novel is a dazzling feat of sleight of hand. This ongoing struggle to master fear, and to inspire others to do the same, forms the backbone of this complex psychological thriller. On the screens the audience watches a tongue split in half. “Fear is not real,” she says, unless we make it so.” This Might Hurt starts with a gory bang, as an unnamed artist performs a gruesome act of self-mutilation in defiance of fear: ![]()
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