What is the taste of life as we really live it, rather than the way
we imagine it in others? What does it feel like to become aware of
the hand of cards we've been dealt, to play them as well as we can,
to understand what has happened to us, and to try to control the
future? Journey to the Middle of the Forest answers these questions
in a way that celebrity memoirs, where events seem so much more
intense than happenings in our own lives because of our perspective
and the writer's fame, cannot. In Journey to the Middle of the
Forest, Bruce Fleming considers the slippages between
presupposition and reality in a life begun and continued in
Maryland, with intervals in pre-civil war Rwanda, the walled-in
city of West Berlin, and the central European Freiburg im Breisgau,
once Austrian, then part of the Duchy of Baden, now part of
Germany. Like all lives, it has its crises-more, it may be, than an
average life: a childhood marked by an alcoholic and abusive
father, a marriage gone horribly awry, an autistic child and a
bipolar stepchild, a dragged-out divorce, the death of a brother to
AIDS, and the re-tooling of hopes to meet the new givens of the
world. And, then re-marriage, two little boys, and the threat of
childhood leukemia. Fleming's intense and vivid memoir asks us to
consider this fundamental question: Do we gain wisdom as we age? We
may tell ourselves we do, as a way of summarizing what's happened
to us: we figure everything we've been through has to be good for
something. But if we do become wiser, it's not with a wisdom that
can help us with any subsequent challenge-and the challenges never
cease. Life gets no easier as we age, we just get deeper into the
forest.
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