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The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
Fascinating conclusion to [a:Pat Barker|4000|Pat Barker|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1539120639p2/4000.jpg]'s [b:The Regeneration Trilogy|5877|The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, #1-3)|Pat Barker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1443440647l/5877._SY75_.jpg|1157830]. Highly relevant to our contemporary world, where the ghosts buried under colonialism are beginning to re-emerge and be heard. For example, a recent call to restore the Maori name for New Zealand, Aotearoa, or the discovery of mass graves at the sites of Residential Schools in Canada. This volume was very different from the two that preceeded it, even though many of the characters are the same. [b:The Ghost Road|151926|The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)|Pat Barker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441850690l/151926._SY75_.jpg|3082366] also refers to the interminable acts that must be borne by humans in war, when life must be lived even when it has become intolerable. And yet, in spite of the gloomy ending, there is a sense of the human spirit throughout the book. The sun pouring down in patches on soldiers bathing in an abandoned barn in France, and through the windows in a hospital in England.
The book also explores the ways in which sex can be used to manage the things that cannot be easily talked about. The main character is bisexual, and a number of explicit descriptions are given. These are not particularly sexy. They are there as a kind of explicit(!) recognition that trauma calls into being a whole network of behaviours that are real but kept hidden. All three books deal with trauma, but in three distinctly different ways. Of the three, I found [b:The Ghost Road|151926|The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)|Pat Barker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441850690l/151926._SY75_.jpg|3082366] more emotionally difficult to read, but ultimately I believe it is the one that will linger the longest.
The book also explores the ways in which sex can be used to manage the things that cannot be easily talked about. The main character is bisexual, and a number of explicit descriptions are given. These are not particularly sexy. They are there as a kind of explicit(!) recognition that trauma calls into being a whole network of behaviours that are real but kept hidden. All three books deal with trauma, but in three distinctly different ways. Of the three, I found [b:The Ghost Road|151926|The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)|Pat Barker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441850690l/151926._SY75_.jpg|3082366] more emotionally difficult to read, but ultimately I believe it is the one that will linger the longest.