Let Me Count the Ways - A Memoir (Paperback)

Growing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and nineties, poverty, machismo, and drug addiction were everywhere for Tomas Q. Morin. He was around four or five years old when he first remembers his father cooking heroin, and he recalls many times he and his mother accompanied his father while he was on the hunt for more, Morin in the back seat keeping an eye out for unmarked cop cars, just as his father taught him. It was on one of these drives that, for the first time, he blinked in a way that evolution hadn't intended. Let Me Count the Ways is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability. Morin's compulsions were a way to hold onto his love for his family in uncertain times until OCD became a prison he struggled for decades to escape. Tender, unflinching, and even funny, this vivid portrait of South Texas life challenges our ideas about fatherhood, drug abuse, and mental illness.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Lives
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Tomas Q Morin
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-1-4962-2649-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4962-2649-6
Barcode:	9781496226495

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