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Raking Leaves
in the Wind
Writer, teacher, and theater director Catherine Miller Hahn ponders in her first memoir the first eighteen years of her life growing up in Midwestern America during the fifties and sixties. Her honest, often humorous, childhood and adolescent stories search for early truths for why she turned away from God and was held frozen in time and immaturity by her vivid, sensitive imagination and fear of reality. The narrative courageously delves into her family’s values, religious views, her dedicated love for her affectionate father, the confused alienation from her strong and stoic mother, and the mental, physical, and spiritual health challenges she faced during these impressionable years.
Raking Leaves in the Wind is written in the author’s compelling, unique voice using intriguing, heartwarming language in its telling of the early journey of a perceptive girl-child born in post-World War II Missouri and how it set her on the fragile path to womanhood amid the accumulative, perplexing conflicts of the women’s liberation movement, the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, and all the passionate struggles of the era. Memoirs open the hidden secrets of their writers. This memoir lovingly discloses the tender weighty secrets a young girl carried to the threshold of adulthood.
