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    Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage
    Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage
    Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage
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    Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage

    By Arthur Boers and Andre Dubus

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    A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violence  
     
    Arthur Boers’s earliest memory was of shattered glass. His father threw a potted plant at his mother, and she ducked as the plant crashed through a window of the family home. His mother cleaned up the shards that day; later in life, he would find himself called upon to pick up the pieces as well.  
     
    In Shattered, Boers reflects on coming of age in a family scarred by violence. The son of Dutch immigrants, Boers illuminates the generational trauma of the Nazi occupation of Holland, refracted in vignettes of his boyhood in postwar Canada. His hard-working, Calvinist family is endearing but ultimately unable to address the insidious cycle of abuse that passed father to son. Breaking with this silence and complicity, Boers reflects candidly and empathetically on his tumultuous relationship with his father. Intertwined with this narrative is his emerging vocation to ministry, more mystical and expressive than the Reformed tradition in which he was raised. 
     
    Forthright and authentic, Boers extends a hand in solidarity to readers who have been wounded by those who were meant to protect them the most. With Shattered, he charts a path toward healing through faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEerdmans
    Release dateMay 9, 2023
    ISBN9781467465564
    Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage
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    Arthur Boers

    Arthur Boers has written on the subject of the intersection of Christian faith and daily life for the past 30 years. His current interests include how faithful living impacts leadership and how technology is affecting the daily life. He holds the R. J. Bernardo Family Chair of Leadership at Tyndale Seminary. An ordained minister and Benedictine oblate, he served for over 16 years as a pastor in rural, urban and church-planting settings in the USA and Canada. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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