Picking up the pieces of my father’s rage

Authors

  • Arthur Boers

Keywords:

abuse, Netherlands, father, son, grandfather

Abstract

Sorting through baby photos, I came across one that most would regard as happy. My grandmother apparently did. I am not as sure. At around age sixty, I decided to interrogate my life and began investigating the violence and abuse of my childhood, breaking family rules about things we knew were not supposed to be mentioned.

Author Biography

Arthur Boers

Arthur Boers (arthurboers.com) is an Anglican priest in Toronto. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Seattle-Pacific University.

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Published

2023-11-28

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