Train Trips into the Unknown: The Challenges of a Latchkey Kid - Couverture souple

Kőrmendy, Milt I.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1775247511 ISBN 13 : 9781775247517

Editeur : Katinval Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Train Trips into the Unknown The author’s fascinating story of growing up as an only child and navigating life as a latchkey kid. Childhood spent in Hungary under a communist controlled regime raised initially by a single working mother and grandmother, then with a stepdad. The trials and tribulations of bouncing from babysitter to babysitter then school and babysitter. Summers billeted to relatives in farm country. The constant interactions with unfamiliar environments and differing rearing influences made dealing with life’s challenges difficult for the author during childhood. Seemingly going anywhere pleasant or unpleasant involved a train ride. At the age of eight, another train ride initiates a life altering experience. The Hungarian uprising of 1956 launched the author and mother and stepfather’s exodus from Hungary as refugees. Seeking asylum from Australia, Canada and the US in Vienna led to being welcomed by Canada. The story unfolds through the eyes of the author child, innocent of the gravity of the reality around him. Adolescence continues as a latch key kid in a foreign environment both as to language and culture, aggravated by parental tugs to retain the customs and language. The adjustment to the new language, customs and culture by day and the conflicted parental rearing by night left the author in limbo and conflicted. The absence anyone to mentor or in whom to confide, the author found comfort from his imaginary friend, Mickey. The author’s parents drive to succeed and the materialistic pursuits necessitated biannual moves up the socioeconomic ladder. This robbed the author of establishing meaningful relationships with friends. Parents didn’t try to assimilate into the Canadian culture, while the author had little exposure to the culture past to which his parents were trying to cling. This tug of cultural clash forced the author to cocoon creating a psychological isolation and loneliness that fueled a stronger bond with Mickey, the author’s imaginary friend. The author is forced to tackle major adolescent challenges by himself, relying on his own distillations of what was right or wrong and input from his alter ego, Mickey. The discovery of the opposite sex and how to interact with them, was a totally self-taught evolution by a neophyte. A decade after the life altering escape from Hungary, and after the author’s totally adoption of Canada as his new country, another bombshell relocation is announced by the author’s parents. A 4,200 km migration to another country; the United States, specifically San Francisco, California. It is 1966. America is fully embroiled in the Viet Nam war. The author is prime draft eligible. The last few month’s in Canada finds the author discovering a young lady, which becomes his first love. The lonely struggle of self-determination of his destiny continues. The author’s future and life, hangs in the balance as he agonizes over uncertain life altering decisions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Katinval Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1775247511
• ISBN 13: 9781775247517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
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