Marc Jampole Explores the Effects of Childhood Trauma in “The Brothers Silver”
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In this episode 221, we visit with Marc Jampole, author of “The Brothers Silver,” a sweeping novel exploring the shame, guilt, anger and fear of betrayal which distort the relationship that survivors of childhood trauma have with other people and their past.
The story begins with brothers Jules and Leon Silver sitting helpless as their mother tries and fails to complete suicide. This act is the catalyst for the book’s tightly woven timeline of Jules and Leon’s lives.
The poet Sparrow X had this to say about the book, “The Brothers Silver employs a fevered, poetry-laced prose to careen through the nine dimensions of American dysfunction. Like that of a Jewish Jack Kerouac, Jampole’s writing has ‘gyrating vibrato folds, wonderfully dissonant cliffs and dips, notes expanding, subsiding and colliding, waning and waxing…’”
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About the Author:
Marc Jampole is the author of The Brothers Silver (Owl Canyon Press, 2021), Music from Words (Bellday Books, 2007), and Cubist States of Mind/Not the Cruelest Month (Poet’s Haven Press, 2017). His poems and short stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies. He has also had published more than 1,800 articles about a variety of topics in newspapers and magazines. A former television news reporter and public relations executive, Marc writes the OpEdge blog and is immediate past president of the board of Jewish Currents, a magazine of politics and arts.
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