Dirt Roads and Diner Pie

Dirt Roads and Diner Pie

by Shonna Milliken Humphrey
Dirt Roads and Diner Pie

Dirt Roads and Diner Pie

by Shonna Milliken Humphrey

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Overview

Against a backdrop of highways, diners, and cheap coffee, one couple finds peace through the redemptive power of love.

Told from a wife’s perspective, Dirt Roads and Diner Pie is the story of one couple’s struggle to confront the long-reaching effects of childhood sexual abuse.

Musician and former lead singer of the United States Air Force Band, Travis James Humphrey lived for thirty months in a culture of childhood sexual abuse while studying at New Jersey’s prestigious American Boychoir School. After his tenure, Travis buried his memories deep. Years into the marriage, these memories began to surface and threaten their relationship. In an effort to resolve the problems, Shonna and her husband hit the road and navigated their way through the treacherous terrain of mental illness, sexual dysfunction, and shame. She details their journey within a month-long road trip throughout the southeastern United States taken shortly after Travis made his experience public.

While the effect of child sex abuse informs nearly every aspect of their shared life, it does not define their relationship. That is the message Shonna offers: Sexual trauma may dominate, but it need not define the relationship.

Shonna Milliken Humphrey’s nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Salon.com, Down East, and Maine magazine. For two years, she wrote regular food, restaurant, and lifestyle columns for the Maine Sunday Telegram. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and Literature from Bennington College.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781942094234
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, LLC
Publication date: 07/11/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 300
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Shonna Milliken Humphrey: Shonna Milliken Humphrey’s nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Salon.com, Down East, and Maine magazine. For two years, she wrote regular food, restaurant, and lifestyle columns for the Maine Sunday Telegram.

She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and Literature from Benni

Table of Contents

Prologue The Beginning 1

Chapter 1 Between Desire & Piety 3

Chapter 2 Estimated Time of Departure 9

Chapter 3 Push Away the Blanket 15

Chapter 4 First Corinthians 19

Chapter 5 New Jersey Legal 23

Chapter 6 New Jersey, Redux 35

Chapter 7 No Escape From New Jersey 41

Chapter 8 Diner Pie 45

Chapter 9 Capital Affair 49

Chapter 10 Working Musician 59

Chapter 11 Trigger Warning 69

Chapter 12 Guitar Store Bunny Ranch 83

Chapter 13 Heritage, Not Hate 89

Chapter 14 Bluebird & Parnassus 93

Chapter 15 Alabama February 105

Chapter 16 Voodoo 111

Chapter 17 The Children of Your People 117

Chapter 18 Florida Riviera 123

Chapter 19 Panama Beachcombers 131

Chapter 20 Congregation of Alligators 135

Chapter 21 Lost In the Book Mine 149

Chapter 22 The Power of Recollection 155

Chapter 23 Low-Country Blues 163

Chapter 24 Don't Ask, Don't Tell 169

Chapter 25 Moving Through Rowland 173

Chapter 26 Genetic Trash 183

Chapter 27 Name-Dropping Dc Two-Step 191

Chapter 28 Home 197

Chapter 29 End of Discussion 205

Epilogue Pipe & Drape 209

Acknowledgments 213

Resources 215

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