Reunion

Hello I’m from Austin, Texas. This is a major experiment for me, as I’ve never blogged before. That’s not to say I don’t keep up a number of conversations via email. I do, but exchanging interactive comments on all fronts, regarding my new book, Reunion, as well as the general subject of writing, will be both fun and new for me.

To start, let me post an excerpt from the introduction/acknowledgments page in the book regarding why I wrote the book.

For many years this story has been in my head. It has proved difficult to present itself in a fashion suitable to be told. In the words of today, I am told I am the adult son of an alcoholic … told that there are effects and impacts. The meaning of that was unclear to me until I attempted to write this book.

The book has a serious theme, the relationship (actually the lack of same) between the narrator protagonist and his father. That haunted the son far past the passing of his parents. Telling the story was an attempt to come to terms with these forces.

But while the primary theme of relationships, the father-son, as well as between several important peers, is important, the book also offers an engagingly-told fun romp though the coming-of-age years of a special high school class, a class recaptured through memories, both those that are  generally historically accurate, as well as many fictional creations. This class has remained especially close, through every five years reunions, a major class blog, and other means.

One of the reviews posted on Amazon’s web site states in part:

Not a single story, but many, artfully woven into a beautiful and compelling portrait of struggle and triumph with friends, family and an alcoholic father. A story of relationships and the need to forgive if we are to move on in our own lives.

I think this describes the story well. Let me stop here with the initial attempt to begin a conversation. I hope this will develop into something worthwhile.

Jim George

Austin, Texas