| Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Peter Cameron |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Frances Foster Books |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 229 |
| ISBN | 0-374-30989-2 |
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a fiction young adult novel by Peter Cameron. James Sveck, the protagonist, tells the reader about his life, including the reasons he became the "Missing Misfit" and is seeing the psychiatrist.
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James Sveck is an isolated young adult caught in the summer before he is to begin college at Brown University. The only person in his life with whom he is able to successfully relate is his grandmother; otherwise, James prefers solitude. Cameron’s use of first person narration allows for the reader to create an intimate relationship with James as he works through his life and through the therapy sessions to which his parents have made him go. The reader learns about James’s present as he tells the events of his days, but the reader learns about his past when James’s reflects on his therapy sessions.
In 2010, Jean Vigo Italia announced a film based on the book, directed by Roberto Faenza and co-written with Cameron.[4] Marcia Gay Harden will star as James' mother.[5]