{"product_id":"9781942094173","title":"Never Leave Your Dead: A True Story of War Trauma, Murder, and Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1953, Donald Watkins, a former Marine who served in China during the Japanese invasion of 1937, murdered his wife and mother-in-law. After serving twenty-two years in Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, he was released and eventually married again. A decade later, Donald may or may not have been the cause of his second wife's death, as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Diane Cameron uncovers the true story of her stepfather, Donald Watkins. Was he a traumatized veteran? A victim of abuse in the mental-health system? Was he a criminal? Mentally ill? Or just eccentric?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she unravels this mystery, Cameron finds healing and understanding with her own struggles and history of family abuse. She discovers an unlikely collection of role models in the community of the China Marines, as they were known. Together, they help put the pieces of shared war experience in perspective and resolve the more complex issue of understanding trauma itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith insights drawn from diverse experts such as Thomas Szasz and Bessel van der Kolk, Cameron unlocks the connection between the experience of veterans of past wars and those who deal with the war trauma today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiane Cameron \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning columnist. An excerpt from \u003ci\u003eNever Leave Your Dead \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in the \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review \u003c\/i\u003eand was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central Recovery Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151990112496,"sku":"9781942094173","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942094173_p0.jpg?v=1763754566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942094173","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}