During times of grief therapists recommend jotting down feelings memories and observations in a notebook. Neal Motherwell takes this practice to the extreme sometimes writing twenty-thousand words in a day.I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.Muriel RukeyserNeal thought hed left an abusive childhood behind until his brother Mick dies forcing him into a search for authenticity in a world of deceit. A Parable of Lies is not a memoir or novel but an experiment in healing fiction.