the field of cat rescue. It has been a brutal kitten season. So many little bitty fragile kittens being brought into the shelter and no one to care for them. The rescue groups I work with try to get them out ASAP, but they are so compromised by the time they are brought in that some just do not have the strength to survive. Even though there are more cats than homes for them, we rejoice for every single baby kitten that makes it!
And in books, I am going back to an author I have loved ever since I discovered him when I lived in North Carolina. His writing is beautiful, hypnotic and descriptive. Like Pat Conroy, his vivid depictions of growing up on the SE Atlantic shores are truly noteworthy.
http://davidpaynebooks.com/books/
Barefoot to Avalon
In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, author David Payne watched from his rearview mirror as his younger brother, George A., driving behind him in a two-man convoy of rental trucks, lost control of his vehicle, fishtailed and flipped over in the road. David’s life hit a downward spiral. From a cocktail hour indulgence, his drinking became a full-blown addiction. His career entered a standstill. His marriage disintegrated. He found himself haunted not only by George A.’s death, but also by his brother’s manic depression, a condition that overlaid a dark family history of mental illness, alcoholism and suicide, an inherited past that now threatened David’s and his children’s futures. The only way out, he found, was to write about his brother.
Barefoot to Avalon is Payne’s earnest and unflinching account of George A. and their boyhood footrace that lasted long into their adulthood, defining their relationship and their lives. As universal as it is intimate, this is an exceptional memoir of brotherhood, of sibling rivalries and sibling love, and of the torments a family can hold silent and carry across generations. Barefoot to Avalon is a brave and beautifully wrought gift, a true story of survival in the face of adversity.
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