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The Pain Tree Stories by Olive Senior is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Pain Tree Stories about?

The Pain Tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life. Among the characters we hear from are: poor folk making the best of past hardships ("Coal"); rich folk plotting future selfishness ("The Goodness of My Heart"); an old man, familiar with darkness, who discovers in foreign capitalism a force even he cannot control ("Boxed-In"); a young girl, uprooted to a new country, forced to shoulder her mother's unspoken burdens in addition to her own ("Lollipop"). Bookending these are two powerful stories about the inextricability of home and history: in "The Pain Tree," the protagonist comes to realize the love she has abandoned, and the pain she has left behind; in "Flying," the lead character, searching for that which has been missing most of his life, comes home for good. Senior navigates the hills and valleys of narrative with natural ease, interweaving thick strands of emotion and insight yet never losing sight of a story's ebb and flow. Her Pain Tree is an engaging, thought-provoking read that transports readers fully to another place, where the unfamiliar and exciting clash and commingle with the universal.

Who reads The Pain Tree Stories?

Author

Olive Senior

Publisher

Cormorant Books

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781770864344

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.07 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14