Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage Boers Arthur
Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage Boers Arthur A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violenceArthur Boers's earliest…
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Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage Boers Arthur
A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violenceArthur Boers's earliest memory was of shattered glass. His mother cleaned up the shards that day; later in life, he would find himself called upon to pick up the pieces as well.In Shattered, Boers reflects on coming of age in a family scarred by violence. His father threw a potted plant at his mother, and she ducked as the plant crashed through a window of the family home.
His hard-working, Calvinist family is endearing but ultimately unable to address the insidious cycle of abuse that passed father to son. The son of Dutch immigrants, Boers illuminates the generational trauma of the Nazi occupation of Holland, refracted in vignettes of his boyhood in postwar Canada. Breaking with this silence and complicity, Boers reflects candidly and empathetically on his
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