WAR BOYS: A FATHER AND SON MEMOIR
Trio House Press
July 1, 2026
Paperback | 306 pages
ISBN: 978-1949487701
Print: $24.99
WAR BOYS: A FATHER AND SON MEMOIR
“Never have I read a story that depicts family abuse with such vulnerability, compassion and insight. This book is a marvel. And this author, an exciting new voice in memoir.”
-Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland: a Memoir of My Father
War Boys is an extraordinary exploration of a family’s intergenerational trauma. It’s the memoir of Jason Prokowiew, an adult son seeking to understand his terrifying and abusive father, interwoven with a biography of his father, who experienced unimaginable horrors as a child during World War II.
As a child, Jason, born thirty years after the war, only knew his father as the screaming, drunken man who called Jason “fat” and “stupid.” Jason cowered in his suburban Boston bedroom as his father verbally abused his mother in the next room. Too scared to emerge, even to use the bathroom, he peed into a tissue box. Years later, impelled to confront the trauma of his childhood, Jason sat down to listen to stories of his father’s own trauma about the Nazis who murdered his family at the start of the war, and the German who adopted him. Using those interviews and extensive research, in War Boys he retraces his father’s harrowing journey to understand how he survived the war and why he became the terrifying father Jason knew.
In an era where generational estrangement is common, War Boys inspires with its account of this father and son, both battle-scarred survivors, and how they heal their relationship through the power of claiming and telling their own stories – and listening to one another.
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