Boomerang Home Again

Résumé du livre

One cannot boomerang back home without the unconditional love of family opening their arms to allow a safe landing back to the nest. The young, Chuck, has "boomeranged" home, after an effort to make it on his own. He is implementing a new plan to live with his family at twenty-one in this candid, deeply affecting story.This story provides an intimate look at the struggle of making it on your own with dark disclosures revealed. The young, single adult has moved from Long Island, New York, to San Diego, California. Now, after the struggle for independence, he finds a second wind of security, at home. Chuck needs the familiarity of home, before he can mature to pursue his adult life. The series concludes, after Chuck narrated his need to "leave the nest," in the first book of the trilogy, Leaving the Nest @21, Pre-Internet "Coming of Age" Journal, and then, San Diego Transplant, Pre-Internet "Coming of Age" Journal."This is the third book in the series, but stands on its own, as a narration of maturation in the family home, after feelings have changed. The burning desire to leave home, and then return, has come full-circle with this story.Here is an excerpt from the first book, Leaving the Nest @21, Pre-Internet "Coming of Age" Journal, regarding the motivation for the topic of this book:When I go to San Diego, I want to be smart and on the ball. I'm not going to take a lazy ass attitude and bask in the sun all the time. Sure, I'm going to enjoy myself, but not at my own expense. I'll make my own time. The days of summer vacations are over. I'm not a teenager anymore. It's time to grow up if I want to reach my goals. This, I know is a good decision. Sure, I want to be in shape and fit, but the "stud" attitude of Utah high school is outgrown. Now that it is unraveled I can rest. I have a habit of creating a lot of emotion in an idea, feeding my ego and self-image and starving myself with insecurity. I like the theme, right now, of "innocence lost" and hardening the conscience through lessons from harsh experiences which tend to falsely teach us that we are naïve and need a rude awakening. I believe that we can continue, stably, and that our simplest nature is a most priceless possession.Note, the 1987 story is based directly off my third journal. I have typed the actual, raw journals from 1987 to the present. All can be accessed on this site by browsing the author pen name, Jack Salk. The first three books were alterned from my private journals to bring in characters and dialogue. However, the later journals have been published with no editing in order to preserve the hand-written, fading ink and prevent from damage or loss by typing. I also want to share my life's story with the public under a pen name.Read the two earlier stories:"Leaving the Nest" @21: Pre-Internet "Coming of Age" JournalSan Diego Transplant: Pre-Internet "Coming of Age" Journal