Spanning generations and genres, THE STORM AT THE DOOR blends memory and imagination, historical fact and compulsive storytelling, to offer a meditation on how our love for one another and the stories we tell ourselves allow us to endure. Quietly incisive and unflinchingly honest, Stefan Merrill Block juxtaposes the visceral physical world of mental asylum with an exploration of how the subtlest damages can for ever alter a family's fate.