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A NOVEL
by Josh Barkey
"PAIN has no reality except in the actual moment of pain. The scab torn off my hand. The long history of torn-off scabs and bruised, strained, torn muscles. The moments when I swung my shovel at just the wrong angle and its thin blade of hardened steel bounced off a stump or branch and smacked forcefully into my already well-dented-and-bruised shinbone."
Former tree planter Josh Barkey draws on a decade of summers spent in the world of industrial reforestation to bring you his second novel, a visceral tale of love, loss, and hand-planted trees.
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POUNDERS tells the story of a pair of brothers who venture into the wilderness of northern Canada for what the BBC has called one of the toughest jobs on the planet.
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"...PAIN has a way of erasing everything else in the universe. But once it's over, the human mind has a habit of wiping it out in favor of new experiences. The painful past is still conceptually real and memorialized as an actual event, but for all practical purposes, it no longer exists. It's gone, leaving room for other, more pleasant things."
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