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.
General
Imprint: |
Red Hen Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Sebastian Matthews
|
Dimensions: |
228 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
152 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-59709-436-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-59709-436-6 |
Barcode: |
9781597094368 |
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