War Boys: a Father and Son Memoir (Memoir), Wales, MA
War Boys tells of my Russian father’s adoption by the Nazis who murdered his family during WWII, and the trauma he carried into parenthood.
“War Boys is a point of resistance to endless wars, and exposes the costs to victims across generations.”
Jason Prokowiew received the 2023 PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. His writing has appeared in Salon, Roxane Gay’s Emerging Writer Series “The Audacity,” WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Brevity, on WORLD Channel’s Stories from the Stage, and is forthcoming in the Guardian and North American Review. He’s received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, Ragdale, and the Mass Cultural Council. He runs his own law office dedicated to disability advocacy and lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ.
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