doors
through the pale door
sarah west takes a temporary job at her fathers south carolina steel mill the summer before college hoping for relief from the chaos of her psychotic and often institutionalized mother . soon after moving into her fathers home tragic news about her mother arrives . the haunting funeral coincides with sarahs first love affair with a fellow mill worker edgewood who shares sarahs artistic gifts . confronted with danger and death at the mill mortality confronts sarah and edgewood from every angle and buries deep in their artwork . edgewood helps sarah overcome the loss of her mother . in the end however sarah will face a greater challenge domesticating her own emerging inner demons while tending to her first lovers uncertainty in himself .