Lost Without Him

A woman recounts her childhood in rural Indiana and her long, passionate marriage to her high school sweetheart in this debut memoir.

Scutt grew up in small-town Indiana with a father who veered from silly to violent. With calm and even prose, the author revisits her worst moments, including having to jump out a window to escape his drunken outbursts. Surprisingly, Scutt’s father was eventually saved by a minister and never had another drop of alcohol for the rest of his life. As a teenager,...