Myers Corners Road: A Short Story Memoir

Myers Corners Road depicts the local and personal path of one ordinary boy but tells a bigger story that speaks to deeper human questions. Via engaging and illuminating narratives, we journey ever more deeply into a particular place-world, growing up alongside a nine-year-old, dreamy boy that becomes a confused adolescent and then a newborn young adult, making mistakes and learning lessons as he matures to full manhood. This enlightening and amusing memoir shows us what it was like to grow up in the 1960s, as a city boy in the country, the grandson of immigrants and the son of working-class parents with solid values, struggling to move into the American middle-class and to find his place in the adult world and in the wider, even more mysterious universe. A truly American coming-of-age story, this enjoyable memoir presents appealing characters we care about, and it uses fascinating, poignant, and concrete narrative to leave us in a reflective mood, pondering the peculiarities of our American ways of being human, especially our spiritual yearning for community with others and for communion with the infinite. Reminiscent of honest, intelligent, and self-aware American memoirs like Growing Up, This Boy’s Life, A Private History of Awe, The Liar's Club, and Lit, Myers Corners Road makes a great addition to this compelling genre.

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