Prairie Town Boyhood

About the Book

This collection of twenty-eight interrelated short stories is a personal account about growing up in a small South Dakota town. Beginning at age four and extending through age seventeen, its stories cover learning to speak English and adapting to town customs from farm life; coping with two of my mother’s remarriages that followed my father’s death when I was two; as an adolescent sharing in the family home with an older brother, also an adolescent, after my mother’s death; and enduring bad part-time jobs to save money for college. The emotions of anxiety, fear, depression, happiness and joy permeate the stories.

About the Author

George H. Weber holds a Ph.D. (Sociology) from the University of Kansas, and has trained in psychology and psychoanalytic therapy. He served as head of Minnesota’s institutions for youthful offenders, Executive Secretary of President Kennedy’s Committee on Youth Employment and as Deputy Director of NIMH’s Division of Special Mental Health Programs. He has also taught at several major universities and is currently an Emeritus Professor at The Catholic University of America. Dr. Weber has edited, co-edited and written thirteen books; he is the author of more than fifty professional articles and reviews. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.