Millrock Writers Collective

Leaving - Memories of Romania
by Mihai Grünfeld Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College.

Leaving - Memories of Romania recounts the narrator's childhood and adolescence as the son of impoverished Holocaust survivors. His parents are unable to talk about their past, but their lives - and the lives of their two sons - are utterly shaped by it. As he comes of age, the narrator is increasingly conscious of his parents’ profound loneliness, the glaring gaps in his family's history, and the questions that go unanswered. Gradually the story of an innocent child’s tender, loving relationship with his parents evolves into a powerful tale of complex family dynamics shaped by adolescent experimentation, the daily grind of factory work, anti-Semitism, and big dreams of escaping the politically restrictive system in which he lives.

Published:  2008, Millrock Writers Collective 
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The Making and Un-making of a Marine:
One Man's Struggle for Forgiveness
by Larry Winters
United States Marine Corps Veteran and licensed mental health counselor

The Making and Un-making of a Marine... is my life's journey, which includes as part of its central theme the Viet Nam War and my search for a role in the world after the War.

 "Indeed war has perhaps always been the most compelling initiation into adulthood. This may be because war replicated all the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual challenges of life in their most intense and threatening forms." Dr. Edward Ticks book, War and the Soul.

Published:  2007, Millrock Writers Collective 
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