Dr. Lee Brazil, a southern refuge, has never made peace with the South he grew up in as a child born without a left hand; nor with the prosthetic hook he wears and the nuclear industry he blames for his disability. While researching material for his book, Ten Years in the Not So New South, in Pine Grove, Tennessee, the Atomic City, Lee attends a SOMOP meeting, Save Our Mountain and Our People, an activist group working to shut down the Pine Grove Labs incinerator for nuclear waste. When an explosion at the Labs occurs, Lee is caught up in the ensuing disaster and implicated in what is mistakenly believed to be a terrorist plot. Managing to escape local authorities, his harrowing journey back home to Maine forces him to seek refuge in a number of unlikely places and solicit help from a number of unlikely allies, including Jean Kudrick, the lost love of his youth. Now on the radar of federal agents tracking a terrorist cell in Boston, Lee is arrested before he reaches home. He is offered a deal: help the FBI foil a terrorist plot and avoid prosecution. In confronting the politics of fear, Lee must challenge his perception of good and evil and struggle with the disabling inner conflicts of his disability to determine his course in reaching home.
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Each of us harbors fear and apprehension and in the dark of night, the mind can extend the shadow of doubt and worry. Reaching Home draws the reader from story to real life associations compelling us to relive and confront our own experience. --Richard C. Lumb, criminologist and contributing
Reaching Home affords us a discerning and deeply human view into the political-psychological realities of disability in America. Down to earth, diverting and dynamic, the characters reflect the struggle we all confront to surmount our own differences, and discover our strengths, as they lead us in this moving journey home. Inspiring! --Dr. Gianna M. Settin, author of Perspectives on Growth
Ron Breazeale demonstrates a Faulknerian understanding of his native south leavened with the wisdom and understanding of human nature gleaned from years of psychological practice. --Don Nalls, Jr.
Ron Breazeale demonstrates a Faulknerian understanding of his native south leavened with the wisdom and understanding of human nature gleaned from years of psychological practice. --Don Nalls, Jr.
Each of us harbors fear and apprehension and in the dark of night, the mind can extend the shadow of doubt and worry. Reaching Home draws the reader from story to real life associations compelling us to relive and confront our own experience. --Richard C. Lumb, criminologist and contributing
Reaching Home affords us a discerning and deeply human view into the political-psychological realities of disability in America. Down to earth, diverting and dynamic, the characters reflect the struggle we all confront to surmount our own differences, and discover our strengths, as they lead us in this moving journey home. Inspiring! --Dr. Gianna M. Settin, author of Perspectives on Growth
Ron Breazeale demonstrates a Faulknerian understanding of his native south leavened with the wisdom and understanding of human nature gleaned from years of psychological practice. --Don Nalls, Jr.
Ron Breazeale demonstrates a Faulknerian understanding of his native south leavened with the wisdom and understanding of human nature gleaned from years of psychological practice. --Don Nalls, Jr.
Each of us harbors fear and apprehension and in the dark of night, the mind can extend the shadow of doubt and worry. Reaching Home draws the reader from story to real life associations compelling us to relive and confront our own experience. --Richard C. Lumb, criminologist and contributing
About the Author
Dr. Ron Breazeale, a clinical psychologist with over 30 years of experience in the field of mental health and drug and alcohol treatment, has developed and administered numerous mental health and substance abuse programs and has written about the things that he knows. He was born with a birth defect in the "Atomic City," Oak Ridge, Tennessee where his parents lived and worked. He has worn a prosthetic hook most of his life and grew up in the South as a child with a disability. He returned to the "New South" for 10 years to work as a psychologist. He has lived much of the book. Having grown up with a disability, Dr. Breazeale has focused much of his clinical practice and his writing on persons with a disability and their families. He is married and has one child. He lives and works in southern Maine.
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There is power in resilience. I truly enjoyed placing myself in these imagined situations and thinking out how I would react. I have been teaching positive coping and resilience skills to emergency workers who must function under extreme stress along with rapidly evolving situations. It requires constant thinking,rehearsal,training an education in order to develop solid survival skills. Besides being a great story, "Reaching Home" challenges the reader. It can provide solid insight into ones inner constitution and skill set.
A great read! Joseph K. Loughlin author of "Finding Amy"
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A story of resilience,
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Ron Breazeale has created a story that taps the concerns and fears of today...then he show us how to reach deep down inside ourselves and find "Home" that internal reserve where we can face and meet any challenge. Strongly recommend this book. - Rita Schiano, author of "Painting the Invisible Man. Painting the Invisible Man
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Let go - of fear.....,
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This book evokes your thoughts on ones personal fears of terrorism and how we all personally and emotionally deal with this prospect. Why are we so attached to this fear? Take a breath and let it go....it exists and except the fear for what it is - fear. What encompasses the power of fear and why and how do we cling onto this notion? "Reaching Home" is a marvelous story, that induces your dearest fear of what would you do and how would you feel in midst of a terrorist plot? Jillianblaze
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