Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Two brothers, two farms, two very different endings.Troubled Mind of the Uncertain is Johnston Cromer’s candid, deeply personal reflection on growing up across two family farms in Aldie, Virginia, during the last years of the Baby Boom--a world of dairy cattle, hayfields, sleigh rides, and grandparents who’d survived the Great Depression and World War II. It’s a vivid remembrance of a slower, harder, freer way of life that no longer exists: barefoot summers, wool shearing, corn silos, and a five-hundred-acre farm that was, in Cromer’s words, his 'piece of heaven'--before development, inheritance disputes, and addiction took it all away.But this isn’t only a nostalgic look back. Cromer writes with unflinching honesty about alcoholism, watching his own brother drink himself into dementia while he found thirty years of sobriety through faith. He writes about depression, restlessness, guilt, and the long road back to God after years of feeling lost. Interwoven throughout are his convictions on faith, family, responsibility, and the state of the country he loves.Part memoir, part meditation, part plainspoken sermon, this is the story of a man reckoning with everything he’s lost--land, family, years to addiction--and everything that got him through: sobriety, faith, and the stubborn hope that redemption is still possible.For readers drawn to rural memoirs, addiction-and-recovery stories, and faith-driven reflections on family and the passage of time, this is a raw, honest read.
