An American Scream

About the Book

In the voice of a Senior citizen An American Scream analyzes a woman’s life through psychotherapy sessions, a journal of her experiences after therapy, and an essay she writes about how the U.S. has changed. With clarity about how much she has been affected by the changes in sexual mores, the Vietnam war, technology, media accountability, consumerism, growing old, the recent loss of basic freedoms and the true cost of the standard of living in the U.S., there emerges a profile of America the Beautiful being slowly torn apart from its most basic and treasured qualities.

The protagonist, named Susan, is educated, well-spoken and piercingly honest about what has brought her to a therapist. After therapy she commits to righting a wrong in her family that her own denial made possible. Then Susan also stops denying negative changes in the U. S. and writes an essay about major historical events affecting the country and her life, the life of an American threatened by more change than has ever before been confronted by Mankind. Serving as the Foreword to the book, the short story "Retribution" pinpoints in a surreal fashion the nexus of what is wrong with U.S. culture.

Scream reflects the American condition today where millions are living paycheck to paycheck while adjusting to an escalation of violence and lack of ethics, trying to find inner peace and safety for their families, confronting a consumer ethos getting harder to actualize, and trying not to fall backward into the increasing gap between rich and poor in a society gone mad with greed and selfishness.

Topics included in this book are: social science, psychology, sexuality, United States today, case for impeachment, violence, mental illness, news, drug addiction, broken families, effects of technology, WMD, peak oil, globalization, global warming, spirituality and religion, and future hope.

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