Author Sharon Dunn tells the story of her difficult father, growing up on the state mental hospital grounds in Concord, NH (where her mother, psychiatrist Gladys Ward-Dunn was clinical director), and of the dysfunctional upbringing these elements created.
"Under A Dark Eye" unravels the mystery of Sharon Dunn's father, who began a one-man business in Penacook in 1952, which Sharon and her brother Mike Dunn transformed into a national business and local employer, Duncraft. Dunn, like a detective, traces the lives of her father and mother through photographs, letters, a child’s drawings, bits of conversations, memories, dreams, and myriad online archives. The memoir touches on immigration, Wall Street and the Depression of the 1930’s, the psychological effects of war, women in medicine, entrepreneurship and family dysfunction." --Gibson's websiteSharon will be appearing on local radio WNHN FM on Wednesday, Sept. 13th at 12:30 pm to discuss her new book, as well as at Gibson's Bookstore on Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 at 5:30 p.m.
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