A traumatic boyhood experience on his parent\'s farm, when an incident between him and a mother hen results in \' Squashed chic kens\', becomes the backdrop for the author\'s deeply-moving, personal life story.
He goes back to the countryside, starts a farm and tries to make sen.
Mentally scarred, he tries to cope with the responsibilities but it proves too much.
After devastating experiences in the Vietnam War, he returns home to a newly-hostile society, rejection and humiliation.
A traumatic boyhood experience on his parent\'s farm, when an incident between him and a mother hen results in \' Squashed chic kens\', becomes the backdrop for the author\'s deeply-moving, personal life story