David Tromblays Schaffen ist tiefgründig geprägt von seinem langjährigen Militärdienst und seinem MFA in Kreativem Schreiben. Seine Essays und Kurzgeschichten zeichnen sich durch ihre ausgeprägte Stimme und die nachdenkliche Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Themen aus. Seine Werke, die in zahlreichen angesehenen Literaturzeitschriften veröffentlicht wurden, stellen einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur zeitgenössischen Literatur dar. Sein kommender Memoirenband wird voraussichtlich tiefe persönliche Reflexionen und Einblicke bieten.
The not-too-distant future. The global population reaches ten billion, leaving the planet at its breaking point. The population is being thinned; its people, their professions, and their health are reclassified: Essential or Nonessential.Jonathan Shaddox works as a medical courier for a healthcare giant, navigating the crumbling remains of what had been great American cities.This was once a work of fiction.
A hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming-of-age story from within the aftershocks set off by the American Indian boarding schools, fanned by the flames of nearly fifteen years of service in the Armed Forces, exposing a series of inescapable prisons and the invisible scars of attempted erasure.When he learns his father is dying, David Tromblay ponders what will become of the monster’s legacy and picks up a pen to set the story straight. In sharp and unflinching prose, he recounts his childhood bouncing between his father, who wrestles with anger, alcoholism, and a traumatic brain injury; his grandmother, who survived Indian boarding schools but mistook the corporal punishment she endured for proper child-rearing; and his mother, a part-time waitress, dancer, and locksmith, who hides from David’s father in church basements and the folded-down back seat of her car until winter forces her to abandon her son on his grandmother’s doorstep. For twelve years, he is beaten, burned, humiliated, locked in closets, lied to, molested, seen and not heard, until his talent for brutal violence meets and exceeds his father’s, granting him an escape.Years later, David confronts the compounded traumas of his childhood, searching for the domino that fell and forced his family into the cycle of brutality and denial of their own identity.