Finding My Way in Westport: A Memoir of Discipline, Rebellion and Resilience

Finding My Way in Westport is a coming-of-age memoir set in the quiet, tightly ordered town of Westport, Connecticut, during the 1960s and 1970s-a place where expectations were clear, conformity was assumed, and deviation rarely went unnoticed. Growing up in a household marked by contradiction, Raymond Marra is caught between two powerful influences: a brilliant but absent-minded father whose intellect commands respect but offers little emotional guidance, and a fiercely independent mother ...