Beauty Where The Sun Doesn't Shine

Pages: 463

What if the darkest parts of a person's life were also the most beautiful?

Dallas Teller has spent years believing that the best stories aren't found in libraries. They're found in people; their contradictions, their secrets, their failures, and the things they would rather leave unspoken.

When a college assignment demands that she write a story that must be lived rather than researched, Dallas finds exactly what she's looking for in a world most people would rather avoid.

Inside anonymous recovery rooms, she encounters people fighting battles that rarely make it into ordinary conversation. Addiction has given each of them a different language for pain, desire, shame, loss, and hope. To Dallas, their stories are something more than tragedy.

They're beautiful.

But the deeper Dallas enters their lives, the harder it becomes to separate observing a story from becoming part of it.

And when a writer decides that darkness is where the most meaningful stories are found, how much of that darkness is she willing to enter?

Beauty Where The Sun Doesn't Shine is a psychological novel about storytelling, obsession, addiction, and the dangerous distance between witnessing someone's pain and truly understanding it.