In her first memoir, writer, teacher, and theater director Catherine Miller Hahn ponders the first eighteen years of her life growing up in the late fifties and sixties in Midwestern America. 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 by her immature imagination and fear of reality. With courage, the narrative delves into the writer’s 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 her most impressionable years.
Raking Leaves in the Wind, written in the author’s compelling, unique voice with intriguing, heartwarming language, explores the early journey of a perceptive girl-child born in post-World War II Missouri and how she was set on the fragile path of 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 hidden secrets. This memoir discloses the tender weighty secrets a young girl carried on her way to becoming an adult.
