Let’s Go Into the Woods

Family Secrets

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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When Garth was growing up, he managed to hide his struggles from his parents. But when Garth becomes a parent himself, he must decide when—and if, at all—to come out of hiding.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
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0:28.2	start listening. Terms Apply. Family Secrets is a production of IHeart Radio. Outwardly, I closed the door on the person I'd become and walked away to a new world.
0:46.5	Even with my wife, even with the new friends to whom I owed my life, I almost never spoke about what had happened back there.
0:56.2	I felt I shouldn't
0:57.5	because it was so ugly.
1:00.5	And I felt I didn't have to
1:02.7	because I had survived.
1:06.6	That's Garth Risk Hallberg,
1:09.1	author of the novel's City on Fire and The Second Coming.
1:13.8	Garth's recent essay in the Atlantic is a story of fathers, sons, legacy,
1:19.1	and the long reach of silence and shame that is only shattered when we speak the truth of ourselves.
1:36.5	... shattered when we speak the truth of ourselves. I'm Danny Shapiro, and this is family secrets, the secrets that are kept from us,
1:41.9	the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves.
1:51.2	The landscape of my childhood is a swath of land that connects Louisiana, where I was born, with North Carolina, where we moved when I was
2:03.9	two or three, and where I grew up. The landscape is hot, humid, dusty, not particularly populated,
2:15.6	and bisected by railroad tracks that, you know, even in the 1980s,
2:22.7	divide the haves from the have-nots.
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