Drive Me Out of My Mind
By Chad Faries
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Drive Me Out of My Mind is a coming-of-age story of wildness and wandering set primarily in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan — its abandoned iron mines, desperate small towns, and heart-breaking bars. It’s the memoir of a boy raised by lawless and itinerant women and how he was cultured — and corrupted — by their hard-living, hard-drinking, and hard-loving ways. Given this lot in life, Faries tells how one boy was hurt into becoming a poet at the ripe age of two — to imagine another world other than the daily madness in front of him — a world where violent stalkers hovered over the hospital beds of women as they gave birth, where father figures also copulated with Gramma, where a worn Barbie doll was a main source of comfort, and where home meant 24 anonymous hovels in 10 years.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chad Faries creates a sordid rabbit hole world for his readers, but reminds us throughout that this wasn't Wonderland. It was his childhood.A great coven of women characters who are flawed but far from witches (even if they might refer to themselves as such), populate the pages, each hogging up their fair share of paragraphs. Yet, somehow, the story of a little boy growing up (pretty much on his own) unfolds. There certainly is love in all of the 24 houses Faries experiences in, even though much of that love is carnal.Faries portrays his upbringing with an honesty that is as refreshing as it is poetic. Many may have trouble accepting the reliability of a hamster (the last chapter's narrator), but there is no denying he lived through an odyssey in the first ten years of his life. A truly amazing story about a Green Lantern loving, Barbie fornicator who survives the nomadic tendencies of his mother, who is herself very much a child growing up on the road.