In reality though, I have come to believe we are drawn to the types of books, fiction or otherwise, that are going to teach us and change us. Maybe I should have paid more attention to the section headings like Shock and Denial, Pain and Guilt, and Anger and Bargaining those would have been my first clues that this thriller was going to be anything but average. But here I was reading this creepy psychological thriller weaving its message of self-acceptance through the pages filled with pink Zippos, and carousel horses. And for pleasure reading I lean toward a romance or even a young adult fantasy adventure. For self-improvement type of reading I tend to look to experts like Elizabeth Gilbert, Brene Brown, or even Steven Pressfield. Reading Mud Vein was the first time I ever realized just how much I was learning about life, learning about myself through works of fiction, of romance, mysteries, fantasy, and young adult none of which would be shelved within the self-improvement section and much of which would be considered subpar as far as books and writing goes.
And not because you don’t have the answers but because you walk away with more questions about who you are and who you want to be. It’s an authors’ true legacy, writing words that fundamentally change you from the inside out. One of the best feelings is when a book stays with you and doesn’t let you go. Instead you walk away asking yourself what darkness is inside of myself that I need to understand? What haven’t I accepted about myself? What are those flaws that I need to embrace as a part of myself in order to be completely me? When you begin reading this fast paced mind-bender your only questions are “What IS happening?” and “Who did this to her?” but by the time the last page is consumed, you realize those weren’t the questions you should have been asking. A story about learning to love yourself completely, wrapped in the guise of a psychological thriller. The book Mud Vein by Tarryn Fisher is far from anything icky or shitty nor is it your average fictional tale.
We all have a mud vein, we all have parts of ourselves we turn away from and wish we didn’t have. Or better yet, for the context of this article, a mud vein is where we store all of our icky stuff that we don’t want to acknowledge we have within us…the human mud vein where all of our shit collects, our flaws, and our disgusting imperfections. Mud Vein: The icky vein on the back of a shrimp which is not recommended to eat and is usually cleaned out before consuming.
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