Beyond Repair : Living in a Fractured State Paperback / softback
by Sebastian Matthews
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Red Hen Press
- Publication Date:08/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781597094368
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Red Hen Press
- Publication Date:08/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781597094368
