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The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir Pain Medicine but also sheds light on"A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."Susanna Sonnenberg, San Francisco Chronicle In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynns daughters birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing