An harrowing insight into the lingering effects of the Vietnam War on its veterans, revealed through a father-daughter relationship. Her father's wartime experiences still haunt him, and Trussoni explores the effect this had on their lives together as she tries to understand why 'the war inside his head' will never be over.
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From her father, Danielle Trussoni learned the importance of rock and roll, how to avoid the cops and never to shy away from a fight. Growing up, she was fascinated by the stories he told of his adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, where he risked his life crawling head-first into holes to search for American POW's held underground. Ultimately, Danielle came to realize that when the man she adored drank too much, beat up strangers or mistreated her mother, it was because the war inside his head would never be over. And eventually, when her mother and siblings walked away and washed their hands of Dan Trussoni, Danielle did not.
As Danielle trails her father through nights of drinking, scores of wild girlfriends and years of bad dreams, a vivid and poignant portrait of a father-daughter relationship emerges. Theirs is a love story filled with anger, stubbornness, outrageous behaviour and battle scars that never completely heal.
Falling Through the Earth features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Falling Through the Earth is available in Hardback
Falling Through the Earth was written by Danielle Trussoni and published by Pan Macmillan
