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Lost In America: Memoires of a Maverick

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Joe Tetro

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Lost in America: Memoirs of a Maverick

Wondrous Coming-of-age Memoir Shares One Man’s Journey Towards Self-discovery

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Hunter S. Thompson once said, “You can live by writing about life or you can live your life and then write about it.” Following the latter advice, Joe Tetro has written of his amazing, madcap journey through life in his new memoir, Lost in America: Memoirs of a Maverick (published by AuthorHouse).

Lost in America chronicles the myriad experiences and sprawling tapestry of Tetro’s life, from his childhood until age 47 when he married for the third time. His story is about “how I coped and didn’t cope with the world I was born into – a world whose ways I never felt were my own,” writes Tetro.

For the first fourteen years of his life on a farm and cattle ranch in Nebraska, Tetro lived in a world of books to escape the sporadic violence of his father and frequent mental breakdowns of his mother. Reading books unlocked worlds for him and inspired his sprawling journey towards self-discovery later in life. Possessed by the early onset of chronic depression, Tetro longed to free himself of the life he was given. He writes:

Somewhere, between the elusive American dream, and the impractical lifestyle of the hobo, I was feeling terribly lost and alone, in a world I not only had not made, but which I could no longer make any sense of. … But, previous to this episode, I’d always had access to an invisible life force—the drive to keep on going, and bite the bullets in a sea of emotional overload. Of course, one of those bullets was my future—to which I’d simply closed my eyes, roped calves, and hoped that time would finally dissolve the crippling self-consciousness that hamstrung me at rodeos. In any event, the charade—if that’s what living in two worlds had been—was obsolete; the “play” that had run for seventeen years had closed. Soon, I would leave my parents home and learn to fly, or be pulled down by the hounds of hell—as an idea embodied in Robert Johnson’s delta country blues called “Hell hound on My Trail” implies.”

After high school, Tetro attended the College of Forestry at Colorado A&M in Ft. Collins, Colo., but it wasn’t meant to last and he soon took off with a friend to Europe. Traveling around Europe on bicycles and trains, Tetro’s whimsical, romantic flight through life took off. Over the next 40 years, he would skip from place to place, job to job, picking olives with Arabs, working on the section gang of the Union Pacific railroad, earning his bachelor’s degree in German languages and literature from Nebraska State University, traveling to Europe, Mexico, the Philippines and India, learning to read and write in Russian, German, Spanish and llokano, working in psychiatric hospitals, becoming a patient in the same hospital, living on a commune with a millionaire’s daughter, using drugs, loving women, hitchhiking, fleeing life and staying alive.

Lost in America is filled with beauty and an exuberant lust for life in all its imperfect glory. Experienced through Tetro’s vagabond lens of contagious, vivid prose, Lost in America is a coming-of-age story that every American reader will never want to forget.

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