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Category:
Literary Fiction
Publisher: BookBaby
Type: Fiction
Pages: 157
Copyright: August 2013
ISBN-13: 9781483500225
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
A heart rending story about the frightening facts nobody wants to talk about, Broken Buckets looks at what can go wrong when we don’t make sure that things go right. A vivid and honest tale of grief and trauma left untended, it is a tribute to teachers and to veterans, and to school children, written entirely before the Newtown tragedy. One reader declared, “It was truly masterful the way the end unfolded.”
When physically unharmed Iraqi war veteran Richard Morang returns home, his PTSD goes unnoticed by the country he fought for, to tragic end.
Broken Buckets is a seemingly upbeat contemporary tale of an ordinary class of American first graders and their pretty public school teacher, Ms. Keller, growing together as the school year unfolds, while the life of a local Iraqi war vet disravels due to undiagnosed PTSD, until all of their lives collide in a horrifying act of mass violence.
It is a story of character and dignity, regret and grief, despair and hope, that could happen in Anytown, USA. It brings into the light the role we all play in a society darkened by a lack of what Mary Pipher and the Sioux call "tiospaye".
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