Running Away from Home
Published Fall of 2022
Running Away from Home by Tracy Burger
Growing up in the 70s, I saw the perfect home, exemplified in the afternoon TV reruns of Leave It to Beaver and The Brady Bunch, and in weekly evening installments of Happy Days. June Cleaver, Carol Brady and Marion Cunningham demonstrated that mothers were a supportive, stable presence in the household; empathizing with their children and providing the required safety net for their experiences and needs. This was how I grew up: believing that families were supposed to operate this way. But mine didn’t.
I wrote Running Away from Home because I felt the need to explore the lifelong dispassionate relationship I had with my mother, why I couldn’t connect with her during the last five years of her life and my desperate need to please her.
My hope is that readers relate to parts of my story about familial relationships, emotional neglect and depression, or are inspired by the vulnerability shown in the telling of an average woman’s true story. If you are a lover of memoirs or true-to-life stories, this book is for you.
Now available in paperback, eBook and audiobook.
Want to learn more? Check out these podcast interviews with Tracy:
How My Parents Raised Me, Childhood Emotional Neglect, Episode 126.
“Tracy’s writing does something very special. It evokes emotion and makes the reader feel as though they are part of her journey.”