The Back Story

Beth Taylor

The Back Story uses personal narrative, data, and humor to illustrate pain. It provides graphic commentary on the quantity, cost, and impact of medicating chronic pain. At once playful and deeply transparent, The Back Story speaks to anyone who is close to someone with a chronic illness. While we cannot explain every detail of what our bodies are going through, an immersion into the foes and follies of pain illuminates the reality of the everyday and encourages the healthy and the ill to laugh together.