My Fathers Letters of Healing On a Quest for the Truth

A Moving Memoir for Anyone Seeking Healing After Trauma, Betrayal, or Silence

At eleven years old, Len Prazych’s world was changed forever by an incident involving the two men he trusted most: his father and the priest who betrayed him.

Decades later, Len returns to that night through a series of raw, vulnerable letters written to his recently deceased father searching for truth, understanding, and the courage to heal.

This memoir is more than a recounting of trauma.

It is a story of survival, emotional honesty, and the human spirit’s ability to rise again.

discover the power of

writing, truth and healing

Writing saved Len’s life.

Each letter in this memoir serves as a courageous step into the past – uncovering shame, conforting silence, and giving language to wounds that once felt too heavy to carry.

The story reveals the cathartic healing that comes from speaking truth, no matter how many years of silence have passed.

Through his journey, Len reminds us that healing is never linear but it is always possible.

This memoir is a statement to the human spirit’s ability to rebuild itself, even after the unimaginable.

It offers hope, connection, and a powerful reminder that we all deserve a chance to heal.

Book Review

Leonard Prazych’s beautiful memoir My Fathers tells, in the form of letters to his father and his priest, how one incident of molestation can color a lifetime. Set in the richly-observed, gritty New Jersey city of Bayonne, My Fathers is an engrossing examination of love and betrayal, one that is not to be missed. Highly recommended!”

Len's journey is one of self-discovery and redemption, and his choice to tell his story through a series of heartfelt letters is both unique and deeply moving. These letters, addressed to those who can never read them, serve as a therapeutic outlet for Len, allowing him to confront his past, process his experiences, and ultimately find solace in the act of confession.

Len Prazych has written a remarkably powerful memoir in the form of letters to his recently deceased father. Len's ability to heal from the trauma of abuse and betrayal by using the written word is truly transformative! When appropriate, I will recommend the technique to my patients and clients.

I didn't put it down, reading it from beginning to end in one sitting. It was riveting – full of pathos, anger, humor, resentment, love, guilt, nostalgia, shame – namely the entire spectrum of human emotions!

In reading the first few pages of ‘My Fathers’ I was reminded of the relationship I had with my own father. And while my experience was very different, the feelings I experienced were very much the same. It was impossible for me to read this memoir in the third person. Through my smiles and tears, I found myself reconciling the relationship I had with my own deceased father and will likely write a letter or two to him.

I commend Len on the publication of his memoir. His profound, original and daring way of processing and integrating complex traumatic experience that became a destructive and at the same time a creative force in his life.

My Fathers Letters of Healing On a Quest for the Truth

A Moving Memoir for Anyone Seeking Healing After Trauma, Betrayal, or Silence

discover the power of

writing, truth and healing

Book Review

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