The Family Curse
Family demons, karmic baggage, sins
of our parents, or character flaws, it
doesn’t matter what we call the human
condition of Hillbilly Elegy, a story
of family dysfunction, we can all identify
to some degree with the misery it sets
free from the dark recesses of our unbeing,
unleashing tiny explosions of chaos into
the normal routine of our comfortable
existence; and as I watched the movie
with the love of my life, holding her hand
now and then for comfort, she could not
fathom how people could behave that
way, losing their center and spinning into
chaos like a whirling dervish from hell,
but it was all much too familiar to me,
a Calabrese boy born into my own family
dysfunction like the young author of the
distressing memoir whose only goal in life
was to redeem himself from the family
curse of unforgiving hubris.
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