This is How We Leave
Paperback 180 pages English Aug 11, 2020
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We all run from something, but do we have to leave?Against a background of family runaways, award-winning memoirist Joanne Nelson explores what it takes to stay when the going begins to dazzle and the staying seems way too ordinary. With a great grandfather who disappears, a grandfather who strays, and a father who walks away, she's lived a life liable to give way at any time. In unflinching prose that is by turns intimate and humorous, she dives deep into her own role (and even culpability) in a childhood marked by disruption, emotional abuse, and parental alcoholism. Nelson's working-class roots and catholic school girl upbringing, experimentation with all things negative, and hopeful creation of a new family life all serve a passionate story that examines the many ways we leave our communities, our families, and even ourselves. It will surprise no one that she became a psychotherapist--working with families, children, and in schools to help others on a similar journey. Her innovative observations and careful attention to detail create an engaging narrative of just how quickly our pasts become the now--and just what we're going to do about it!
- Author:
- Joanne Nelson
- Publisher:
- Vine Leaves Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 11, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 180 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1925965368
- ISBN-13:
- 9781925965360