Drive Me Out of My Mind is a coming-of-age story of wildness and wandering set primarily in the Upper Peninsula of Michiganaits abandoned iron mines, desperate small towns, and heart-breaking bars. Itas the memoir of a boy raised by lawless and itinerant women and how he was culturedaand corruptedaby their hard-living, hard-drinking, and hard-loving ways. Given this lot in life, Faries tells how one boy was hurt into becoming a poet at the ripe age of twoato imagine another world other than the daily madness in front of himaa world where violent stalkers hovered over the hospital beds of women as they gave birth, where father figures also copulated with Gramma, where a worn Barbie doll was a main source of comfort, and where home meant 24 anonymous hovels in 10 years.Here we all were in a cupped hand like failed action figures and Barbies that nobody wanted to buy. Nobody every wanted ... Behind him from the street the angelic headlight rays of a red 1964 Plymouth Fury cast a golden aura on his skinny frame. I was sure Aunt ... I woke up in the back of a 1960 Ford Falcon station wagon sleeping on top of twelve cases of beer with Barbie at my side. Mother turned theanbsp;...
Title | : | Drive Me Out of My Mind |
Author | : | Chad Faries |
Publisher | : | Emergency Press - 2013-10-18 |
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