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- Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
In 2011, my family was in a major car accident. We were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a heart attack. It took three years to recover from our injuries, and a couple more to deal with the aftereffects of trauma. When I finally returned to the world—as father and husband, friend and brother, writer and citizen—it became clear that our society was in its own traumatized state—reeling from the string of police shootings of unarmed African Americans, stunned by yet one more mass shooting. The people around me were displaying all the signs of PTSD—jumpiness, irritability, numbness—and, concordantly, my interactions out in daily life were becoming more dysfunctional, at times downright hostile. Us against them. Red vs. blue. Black vs. white. Rich vs. poor. That we were living in a progressive town inside a conservative county in the Mountain South only made things more volatile. I decided that if we were all living in a fractured society no longer recognizable, then it was up to me to re-engage in it. I would enter into encounters with people as conscious as possible of the potential divides and misunderstandings between us. I started with my neighborhood and town, then moved out into the counties around us, then traveled further out into the country. My goal: to connect.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. 7-14
- Rounding the Curve
- White Men in Trucks
- p. 23
- Determined
- p. 25
- At the Waterpark
- pp. 27-28
- Blind Spot
- pp. 33-34
- Selmafor V.
- p. 36
- “Crippled”
- Across the Tracks
- p. 49
- Livin’ Large at Snapper Jack’s
- pp. 50-51
- Falafel 5K
- pp. 55-56
- Untouchable
- Team Player
- p. 63
- Neighborly
- pp. 64-65
- Dining Out
- p. 66
- War v. Peace
- pp. 67-68
- Gentrified
- pp. 72-73
- Not a Joke
- p. 74
- Foul Intake
- Headlines
- Respect Yourself
- p. 93
- Walking Lubbock
- pp. 96-98
- Poet
- Notes from Vegas Strip
- p. 109
- X Marks the Spot
- pp. 112-114
- No Trespassing
- p. 116
- Car & Driver
- White Dad Shoes
- p. 123
- Stuck in Stowe
- pp. 124-126
- Heart of Sol Legare
- pp. 130-132
- Flood
- Want That!
- p. 143
- Zombieland
- p. 149
- Back Matter
- pp. 159-161
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597098540
Related ISBN(s)
9781597094368
MARC Record
OCLC
1259423947
Pages
152
Launched on MUSE
2022-02-26
Language
English
Open Access
No