Cottonwood Shadows

De: Robert Bartok

Narrado por: Robert Bartok

Cottonwood Shadows is a timeless kaleidoscope of immigrant dreams, farm life, and tragedy. Go inside the mind of a psychiatrist who struggles to heal others while battling his own personal catastrophes. Sandor’s story is told in a novel you will find difficult to put down and impossible to forget.

Growing up in Wisconsin, Sandor Magyar works hard on his family’s small dairy farm and earns good grades in school. He attends college, graduates from medical school, and completes a psychiatric residency; living out his immigrant parents’ American Dream. But when tragedy strikes, splintering his marriage and destroying his joie de vivre, he can no longer elicit the empathy needed for clinical work. Vacillating between murderous impulses and suicidal urges, Sandor’s life hangs in precarious balance.

This story takes you inside the mind of a psychiatrist, revealing how those who aspire to heal others battle their own catastrophes. A timeless kaleidoscope of immigrant dreams, farm life, professional success and personal tragedy.

©2023 Robert Bartok (P)2023 Robert Bartok

A story of a journey through tragedy to hope

Sandor Magyar has an idyllic boyhood in a Wisconsin farm. But he wasn’t destined to stay there. His life was full of triumphs-medical school, marriage, a daughter-and trauma. We get a glimpse into the mind of a psychiatrist and his patients and are taken with him as he navigates his own struggles. The narrator is too slow for my liking but Audible’s speed adjustment tool cured that with no distortion which also shortens the listen. A worthy read.