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100	1		_aBoers, Arthur P. _q(Arthur Paul), _d1957- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aShattered : _ba son picks up the pieces of his father's rage / _cArthur Boers.
264		1	_aGrand Rapids, Michigan : _bWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, _c2023.
300			_aix, 206 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"The son of Dutch immigrants makes sense of his family's patterns of abuse and trauma through the lens of faith"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violence Arthur Boers's earliest memory was of shattered glass. His father threw a potted plant at his mother, and she ducked as the plant crashed through a window of the family home. His mother cleaned up the shards that day; later in life, he would find himself called upon to pick up the pieces as well. In Shattered, Boers reflects on coming of age in a family scarred by violence. The son of Dutch immigrants, Boers illuminates the generational trauma of the Nazi occupation of Holland, refracted in vignettes of his boyhood in postwar Canada. His hard-working, Calvinist family is endearing, but ultimately unable or unwilling to address the insidious cycle of abuse that passed father to son. Breaking with this silence and complicity, Boers reflects candidly and empathetically on his tumultuous relationship with his father. Intertwined with this narrative is his emerging vocation to ministry, more mystical and expressive than the Reformed tradition in which he was raised. Forthright and authentic, Boers extends a hand in solidarity to readers who have been wounded by those who were meant to protect them the most. With Shattered, he charts a path toward healing through faith. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aBoers, Arthur P. _q(Arthur Paul), _d1957-
650		0	_aClergy _zCanada _vBiography.
650		0	_aFamily violence _zNetherlands.
650		0	_aImmigrant families _zNetherlands.
650		0	_aImmigrant families _zCanada.
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