Seeing America Between the Lines

Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Nonfiction

Less than a year into the second reign of the mad American king-a monarch with all the subtlety one might expect from America''s first-it''s easy to forget that his first term was no cake walk. Supposed terrorists in every rescued migrant, children separated from parents on the border, over-told numbers of personnel scandals and the constant turnovers that resulted, the utter weaponization of foreign relations, the camera-captured continuation of systemic racism culminating in George Floyd and the rise of BLM, and, of course, the pandemic...we were in a constant collective state of emergency.

It was a time of destruction, mostly of our idea of normal. But it also was a time of repair, or at least, for many, the recognition of its need. The ubiquity of psychotherapy that took shape during this time is not surprising: a lot of us decided to have a look under the hoods to see if we might be part of the problem.

In 2018, hot on the heels of therapeutic discoveries of my own, I started with a steering wheel and ended with a qwerty keyboard. I saw neither coming: the road trips nor the discoveries they would lead me to.

Some of those discoveries, I found, I could not live with.

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"The honesty is what got me most. Henderson doesn''t try to look noble. He is just human. And the way he ties the physical road with the emotional one feels true, especially when the miles start to blur, and the heart starts to speak up." - Literary Titan

"The prose is lyrical yet grounded, capturing the beauty of the natural world and the complexities of human relationships. His reflections on family, identity, and the search for meaning are deeply personal, yet they invite readers to consider their own journeys and the choices that shape their lives." - Readers'' Favorite