“Between Two Trailers” is a Survival Story: How a Preschool Drug Dealer Became a Duke Divinity School Graduate

In this episode 387, we feature Dana Trent and her memoir, Between Two Trailers, a powerful story about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana, to become a graduate of Duke Divinity School. Publishers Weekly calls the memoir a “blend of grit and hope.” Other reviews invoke the phrases: “luscious prose,” “ludicrously good plot,” “unflinching truth,” “full of resilience and redemption,” and “a memoir in the vein of great literary coming-of-age narratives.” The book is a fast, surprising, shocking, and inspiring read.

Show discussion highlights:

  • Dana Trent: Now and Then
  • The setting: Dana, Indiana
  • The reason for and timing of the memoir
  • The preschool drug dealer
  • How she survived her childhood
  • Finding one’s way home
  • How her experience guides her work today
  • A reading from the book
  • The meaning of the title
  • Memoir writing advice

Author bio:

Dana Trent is a speaker, professor, award-winning spirituality author, and minister. A graduate of Duke Divinity School, she teaches world religions and critical thinking at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has a podcast about this story at https://www.jdanatrent.com/podcast

Learn more about the author and their books HERE.

https://www.jdanatrent.com

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