Can't Go Home Again - Hope and Healing Novel for Emotional Recovery & Self-Discovery | Perfect for Book Clubs, Therapy Reading, and Personal Growth Journeys

Anthologies are a great way to find new authors to read. I am happy when I find one good author when I buy an anthology.I am happy to report that the stories are uniformly good and (in my opinion) the stories by Rick Cartwright, J.L. Curtis and D. Lawdog are monumental.Cartwright's story resonated with me because my sister-in-law's husband was a firefighter who died of cancer in his early fifties.Curtis's story resonated with me because he offers sage observations to spouses on why people who suffer PTSD react in unpredictable ways and offers a path to healing.Lawdog's story is first-person and is a moving account of somebody heroically clinging to sanity by their fingernails. Lawdog does this without sappy, trite cliches.One thing that is notable about the stories is that most of them start out as very jumbled narratives and can be a bit disconcerting to the beginning reader. The narrative tumbling back on itself is a symptom of PTSD. The random juxtaposition of turkeys, Holidays, blood, explosions and bayberry candles is what the person suffering from PTSD has to comb out and make order of. It is a bit off-putting to the reader but please understand that the chaos is not due to shabby writing. It is an accurate rendition of the reality experienced by the PTSD patient.