Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir

2023 Vulgar Genius Nonfiction Award
2022 Writer’s League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award

Growing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and nineties, poverty, machismo, and drug addiction were everywhere for Tom疽 Q. Mor?. He was around four or five years old when he first remembers his father cooking heroin, and he recalls many times he and his mother accompanied his father while he was on the hunt for more, Mor? in the back seat keeping an eye out for unmarked cop cars, just as his father taught him. It was on one of these drives that, for the first time, he blinked in a way that evolution hadn’t intended.

Let Me Count the Ways is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability. Mor?’s compulsions were a way to hold onto his love for his family in uncertain times until OCD became a prison he struggled for decades to escape. Tender, unflinching, and even funny, this vivid portrait of South Texas life challenges our ideas about fatherhood, drug abuse, and mental illness.

Author: Tomás Q. Morín
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/01/2022
Series: American Lives
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781496226495
Language: English