Pawns
The Farm, Nebish, Minnesota, 1950s
Caught between a mentally ill mother and a stepfather with undiagnosed PTSD, Author Wendell Affield's childhood was marked by family dysfunction. In this memoir, which includes nearly 100 illustrations, he recounts growing up on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota in the 1950s.Musty letters, documents, and sixty-year-old photo negatives conjured memories as Affield pored over them.In a grainy negative beneath the magnifying glass, Affield saw his mother as the beautiful, mentally ill young woman transplanted in 1949 from her cosmopolitan New York roots. She stands beside the lilac that the author will land next to a few years later after j…
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- ISBN: 978-1-945902-03-1
- EAN: 9781945902031
- Produktnummer: 34910987
- Verlag: Whispering Petals Press, LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.3 cm 522 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 522
Über den Autor
It's one thing to write a book; it's another to live it. Wendell Affield never knew his father. His childhood was punctuated by a volatile mother and an unpredictable stepfather. At twelve, he and his siblings were placed in foster homes, his mother committed to a mental hospital. At sixteen, he rode the rails out west and lived in hobo camps. At seventeen, he enlisted in the navy. At twenty, he was wounded in an ambush while driving a river patrol boat in Vietnam and medevaced home. This lifetime of adventure and instability are the foundation for everything he writes.After being diagnosed with PTSD in the 90s, Wendell began exploring writing as a way to process everything he had experienced. He studied the writing craft at Bemidji State University. Today, he speaks to groups across Minnesota about PTSD and leads workshops to show veterans and others how to use writing as a way to move forward from their experiences.
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