{"product_id":"as-you-were-9781950539222","title":"As You Were","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming-of-age tale--told from inside the shockwaves set off by the Indian boarding schools, exacerbated by a decade and a half spent inside the Armed Forces--exposing a series of inescapable prisons and invisible scars of attempted erasure\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e When he learns his father is dying, David Tromblay ponders what will become of the monster's legacy and picks up a pen to set the story straight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In sharp and unflinching prose, he recounts his childhood bouncing between his father, who wrestles with anger, alcoholism, and a traumatic brain injury; his grandmother, who survived Indian boarding schools but mistook the corporal punishment she endured for proper child-rearing; and his mother, a part-time waitress, dancer, and locksmith, who hides from David's father in church basements and the folded-down back seat of her car until winter forces her to abandon her son on his grandmother's doorstep. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For twelve years, he is beaten, burned, humiliated, locked in closets, lied to, molested, seen and not heard, until his talent for brutal violence meets and exceeds his father's, granting him an escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Years later, David confronts the compounded traumas of his childhood, searching for the domino that fell and forced his family into the cycle of brutality and denial of their own identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dzanc Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950539222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Tromblay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38294684565685,"sku":"9781950539222","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_79353de8-39d6-4024-a6ff-4705583f8954.jpg?v=1611068218","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/as-you-were-9781950539222","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}