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Facing the Wind
- A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Yet something slowly began to happen to Rowe . . His deceased mother's voice started to reverberate in his head instructing him to murder his family; reality disintegrated and a new job was lost when it proved too overwhelming. Finally a short stay in a psychiatric hospital did nothing to quell his sudden volatility . . . In a horribly violent act, he killed his wife and children.
Seen through the eyes and thoughts of Rowe's friends and second wife (whom he married on release from the psychiatric hospital where he spent just a few years for the murder of his family), Salamon braids the story of a man's roller coaster life (from ideal family man to murderer to someone struggling for redemption) with the touching and heroic tales of the mothers who were left looking on in shock at the tragedy no one ever could have anticipated.
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Disconnected...
What did you like best about Facing the Wind? What did you like least?
I enjoyed the writing style, and some portions of the book. The parts about the support group were interesting but nor really related to the story of Bob Rowe and his family so much... I think it was an ambitious book that should have been two... Bob's story in one and the support group in another. I hoenstly couldn't finish the book. I just passed the part where Bob murders his family, and just found that it went back to the support group's reaction... and there were so many minor characters that I couldn't keep track.
Would you be willing to try another book from Julie Salamon? Why or why not?
Yes. Her writing style is engaging and powerful. I have Hospital in my library and look forward to reading it.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Yes. QUite likely the Bob Rowe story would be the sole focus.
Any additional comments?
This book is a tragic treatise more on disabled children and the people who work with them... and less about the Rowe family... I have read the Amazon reviews that it does get more into Bob's story in the 2nd half... I just wish the book had more continuity so that I could get there.
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