Bücher von Aaron Brown

After a major change in lifestyle, a group of friend that were formerly a team of heroes attempt to put away their heroic past to raise their children in a normal environment, however during their teenage years, the teens are pulled into their parent's hidden lives where the new generation of heroes must unknowingly and unwillingly deal with drama, lies, and secrets produced by their parent's supposedly heroic yet surprisingly sketchy history. . .The story offers multi-genres. It is an exaggeratted version of the author's realities that travel through love, horror, and humor all in the midst of non-stop action through a heroic adventure.

Less Than What You Once Were begins in a pivotal moment for the speaker-during the 2008 "Battle of N'Djamena" in Chad's capital. This destabilizing experience-in which the speaker's home is broken into-results in the family embarking on a months-long departure from the place, and the narrative begins to cycle through childhood memories, from the first night when Brown lands at N'Djamena's airport as an eight-year-old boy to the failed attempt at bird hunting with a slingshot. These centering memories soon give way to stories of displacement as a young adult and, much later, a return to the country of his youth. This fragmented memoir, told in a similar, episodic style to Claudia Rankine's Citizen, is both a coming-of-age story and also a story of exile, ending in a state of dislocated adulthood, the speaker longing for a return to a childhood home that can't be accessed.

A collection that alternates between celebration and lament, Winnower traces the experiences of an American poet growing up in war-torn Chad, Africa.