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Switch Back 2 by Steve K. S. GreyCPTSD? WHAT CPTSD? DID A SIMPLE TOKEN OF LOVE CURE ME? If it did, it could happen for you, tooGrowing up, Steve K. S. Grey knew little else but abuse and uncertainty. Pulled from a turbulent family life at a young age, he spent much of his childhood moving...

For Steve Grey growing up, abuse and uncertainty was all he ever knew. Pulled out of a difficult family upbringing when he was only a child, Steve jumped from children's home to children's home, rarely ever escaping the after-effects of the trauma that defined much of his early years. Unfortunately, the type of suffering Grey endured doesn't just get to be wiped away, as Switch Back examines how his childhood abuse also manifested itself in his adult life in ways he could have never imagined.

In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time...