Kenneth E. Miller's Blog
November 5, 2016
My New Book
Hi Goodreads friends and fellow readers,
I'm delighted to announce the publication of my new book, "War Torn: Stories of Courage, Love, and Resilience", from Larson Publications.
War Torn: Stories of Courage, Love, and Resilience
EARLY PRAISE FOR WAR TORN: STORIES OF COURAGE, LOVE, AND RESILIENCE
In evocative and powerful prose, Ken Miller captures the remarkable human capacity for resilience in the face of great adversity. He also writes with compassion about the lasting damage that war has on the human heart and mind, when the limits of resilience have been surpassed.
–From the foreword by Dr. James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago, author of No Place to be a Child: Growing up in a War Zone and Children and the Dark Side of Human Experience
You could find no better guide than Ken Miller to illuminate this dark territory. A skilled storyteller, he has an eye for nuance that is often missing in our cultural conversation about PTSD. There is great suffering in the aftermath of unthinkable events but there is also bravery and courage that reveal what is best about humanity. I put down this book with a heart that was broken but also filled with hope.
— Ethan Watters, Author of Crazy Like Us and Co-founder, San Francisco Writers Grotto
War Torn is an exceptional, gripping account of the impact of war—a must-read for anyone interested in how war profoundly touches and shapes people. This collection of personal experiences and mosaic of situations provides rich and unique insights into the complexities of war torn countries.
— Dr. Mark Jordans, King’s College London
A rigorous and compelling critique of current (often narrow) efforts to intervene and conceptualize the emotional consequences of armed conflict. Beautifully marries hard data to vivid, gripping images that remind us what really is at stake. In short, War Torn is an incisive must-read for those who make it their life’s work to run toward the world’s fires with a commitment to help. And for the rest of us? Dr. Miller beckons us to …accompany him on his highly readable personal journey, an intimate exploration of big questions, no more so than how we construct meaning in our lives. I won’t soon forget some of the people and their struggles portrayed in these pages.
–Michael Sayette, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Ken Miller weaves together for us tragic stories of war, loss and injustice with tales of friendship, family, and laughter. Ken’s gift is the way he listens, which takes him and his readers beyond simple categories of war victim or trauma survivor to the complex experiences people have in settings torn apart by violence. I’m grateful for the way he has captured the simultaneously disabling and inspiring coexistence of darkness and light in these places.
— Dr. Jeannie Annan, International Rescue Committee
War Torn provides harrowing first-hand insights into human suffering across contexts burned into global consciousness…Guatemala, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Syria…But this extraordinarily sensitive and insightful text ultimately communicates most powerfully regarding the humanity that endures in such adversity.
— Dr. Alastair Ager, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; editor of Refugees: Perspectives on the Experience of Forced Migration, and author of Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement
To read an interview with Ken Miller and writer & literary blogger Deborah Kalb, and for excerpts from the book, please see my Word Press blog at https://drkenmiller.wordpress.com
I'm delighted to announce the publication of my new book, "War Torn: Stories of Courage, Love, and Resilience", from Larson Publications.
War Torn: Stories of Courage, Love, and ResilienceEARLY PRAISE FOR WAR TORN: STORIES OF COURAGE, LOVE, AND RESILIENCE
In evocative and powerful prose, Ken Miller captures the remarkable human capacity for resilience in the face of great adversity. He also writes with compassion about the lasting damage that war has on the human heart and mind, when the limits of resilience have been surpassed.
–From the foreword by Dr. James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago, author of No Place to be a Child: Growing up in a War Zone and Children and the Dark Side of Human Experience
You could find no better guide than Ken Miller to illuminate this dark territory. A skilled storyteller, he has an eye for nuance that is often missing in our cultural conversation about PTSD. There is great suffering in the aftermath of unthinkable events but there is also bravery and courage that reveal what is best about humanity. I put down this book with a heart that was broken but also filled with hope.
— Ethan Watters, Author of Crazy Like Us and Co-founder, San Francisco Writers Grotto
War Torn is an exceptional, gripping account of the impact of war—a must-read for anyone interested in how war profoundly touches and shapes people. This collection of personal experiences and mosaic of situations provides rich and unique insights into the complexities of war torn countries.
— Dr. Mark Jordans, King’s College London
A rigorous and compelling critique of current (often narrow) efforts to intervene and conceptualize the emotional consequences of armed conflict. Beautifully marries hard data to vivid, gripping images that remind us what really is at stake. In short, War Torn is an incisive must-read for those who make it their life’s work to run toward the world’s fires with a commitment to help. And for the rest of us? Dr. Miller beckons us to …accompany him on his highly readable personal journey, an intimate exploration of big questions, no more so than how we construct meaning in our lives. I won’t soon forget some of the people and their struggles portrayed in these pages.
–Michael Sayette, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Ken Miller weaves together for us tragic stories of war, loss and injustice with tales of friendship, family, and laughter. Ken’s gift is the way he listens, which takes him and his readers beyond simple categories of war victim or trauma survivor to the complex experiences people have in settings torn apart by violence. I’m grateful for the way he has captured the simultaneously disabling and inspiring coexistence of darkness and light in these places.
— Dr. Jeannie Annan, International Rescue Committee
War Torn provides harrowing first-hand insights into human suffering across contexts burned into global consciousness…Guatemala, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Syria…But this extraordinarily sensitive and insightful text ultimately communicates most powerfully regarding the humanity that endures in such adversity.
— Dr. Alastair Ager, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; editor of Refugees: Perspectives on the Experience of Forced Migration, and author of Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement
To read an interview with Ken Miller and writer & literary blogger Deborah Kalb, and for excerpts from the book, please see my Word Press blog at https://drkenmiller.wordpress.com
