Author: Herb Waterous
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1983512796
ISBN 13: 978-1983512797
Fear, anger and shame raged in his mind as he held on desperately to his nineteen year old fiancé’s ankle. The crinolines and bows on her bride’s maid’s dress flying over her head, his other hand on the steering wheel, he weaved up Third Avenue in Manhattan at 3 a.m. after she had bolted from the car in a rage. They had just driven one hundred miles to drop his newly married brother and sister-in-law off at their honeymoon hotel. He had been best man and she a bride’s maid. Experiences and behaviors such as this would expose like blue light the hidden, deranged and complex family disease of alcoholism. It was only the beginning for them, those around them and the six children they would bring into the world together. Herb was born in this city at the beginning of World War Two, raised in Woodstock, N.Y. to adulthood in the sixties during a political and cultural revolution, to a musical theatrical family on his father’s side. His mother the only granddaughter of the President of the New York Central Rail Road. A child of alcoholics, he tells his story with painful honesty. Beautifully written with deep insight, it is a story of a family in crises; joy, tragedy, perseverance, lost identity, survival, re-discovery and the grasping of a lifeline to redemption.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1983512796
ISBN 13: 978-1983512797
Fear, anger and shame raged in his mind as he held on desperately to his nineteen year old fiancé’s ankle. The crinolines and bows on her bride’s maid’s dress flying over her head, his other hand on the steering wheel, he weaved up Third Avenue in Manhattan at 3 a.m. after she had bolted from the car in a rage. They had just driven one hundred miles to drop his newly married brother and sister-in-law off at their honeymoon hotel. He had been best man and she a bride’s maid. Experiences and behaviors such as this would expose like blue light the hidden, deranged and complex family disease of alcoholism. It was only the beginning for them, those around them and the six children they would bring into the world together. Herb was born in this city at the beginning of World War Two, raised in Woodstock, N.Y. to adulthood in the sixties during a political and cultural revolution, to a musical theatrical family on his father’s side. His mother the only granddaughter of the President of the New York Central Rail Road. A child of alcoholics, he tells his story with painful honesty. Beautifully written with deep insight, it is a story of a family in crises; joy, tragedy, perseverance, lost identity, survival, re-discovery and the grasping of a lifeline to redemption.