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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

A Memoir of Learning to Believe You're Gonna Be Okay

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From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright.

Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready wink, who once scaled a fifty-foot tree just to hang a tire swing for his son. He was also the stranger who tried to kidnap and kill Sean's mother before pulling the trigger on himself. He was a childhood hero, now reduced to a man in a box.

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is the story of what happens after the unthinkable, and the journey we all must make in finding the courage to stop the cycles of the past from laying claim to our future.

Sean was a seventh-grade drop-out, a dishwasher then a construction worker to help his mother and sister scrape by, and a self-described "nobody with a sad story behind him." Yet he cannot deny the glimmers of life's goodness even amid its rough edges. Such goodness becomes even harder to deny when Sean meets the love of his life at a fried chicken church potluck, and harder still when his lifelong love of storytelling leads him to stages across the southeast, where he is known and loved as "Sean of the South."

A story that will stay with you long after the final page, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? testifies to the strength that lives within us all to make our peace with the past and look to the future with renewed hope and wonder.

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    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2020

      Dietrich (Star of Alabama) extends the narrative of his popular blog "Sean of the South" with this deeply personal memoir. A self-declared simple storyteller who champions finding a way to shine the light of positivity, Dietrich shifts the lens a bit as he unpacks his own tragedy. Chapters slowly unfold how a 12-year-old copes with the loss of a father to suicide; a parent who had been his hero but has also committed domestic violence. Without shame, Dietrich shares his coming-of-age struggles, from dropping out of school in the seventh grade to washing dishes and working construction to the arduous process of completing community college years later. More sorrowful stories are interspersed with amusing antics from Dietrich's beloved dog, Ellie Mae, as well as the author's own self-deprecating quips on Southern living. What could easily have been a heavy read is uplifted with Dietrich's quirky one-liners told with a big-hearted, Southern voice. VERDICT Followers of "Sean of the South" or Dietrich's podcast will relish this revelatory, faith-filled memoir.--Angela Forret, State Lib. of Iowa

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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