Journalist EA Hanks jointly said that his father, actor Tom Hanks, and brother, Colin Hanks, were among the first people to read their deep personal memory, “The Ten: Family Memory and Open Road”, which has details with his late mother in his childhood.
“The first thing my father said is, ‘This is a valid picture of love and fear this woman.’ Once I knew I had gained the right, everything else was swept away, “he said during a” CBS morning “on Wednesday.
The book contains details of Hanks’ six-month journey with Interstate 10 from California to Florida, during which he died in 2002 and tried to consider his difficult childhood.
Hanks said, “I’m just another girl trying to make her dead, crazy mother feel.”
Hanks revealed that when he grew up, he had a language of understanding of drugs-his mother hosted 12-step programs in his home-but there was a lack of words for mental illness.
“My mother-in-law had a drug language because we used to host 12 steps in our house, and my mother used to live with us. I had a language about drugs even at the age of 8, but had no language for mental health and what was wrong at home.” “A lot of the book is trying to make me that language and share it.”
The author, in fact described his mother’s “fluid” relationship, said that the book states that “the mother’s relationship with reality was flowing. Reality was fed through a meat of mental illness.”
He described both emotional and physical abuse in his childhood house in detail. Hanks explained that in the late 1980s in California, family law usually requires evidence of physical abuse before removing a child from a situation.
“Family law in California in the late 80s was not enough, you would have to make physical abuse receipts to get out of a situation, and once we crossed it when I moved to Los Angeles,” he said.
What Hanks learned about her mother
Despite the difficult relationships, Hanks said he was a protector of his mother. In writing a memorandum, he added his mother’s poetry as a way to re -connect with her.
“At that time, it was like my mother, like my mother, was like a well -throwed for a pasture, and because of my father, he did not get the opportunity as an artist, as I explain it, destructive reputation.” “I think there is a way to include his poetry in the book to treat him seriously as an artist and come back to conversation with him. And whoever burys his parents knows that a two -way conversation suddenly becomes a one -sided conversation.”
When she understands this truth now, Hanks reflected her, “The truth is, my mother had good days and bad days. And I was fortunate to experience good days, and I was shaped because of bad days.
The memory also discovers the topics of space and identity. As a journalist was accustomed to interviewing others, Hanks discovered, “When you are talking to cold strangers, you can’t start, ‘Tell me about your mother,’ but you can start, ‘tell me where you are from.’ If anyone wants to talk about his hometown, this is a lift for his deep self. “
He added, “Identification and where you are from, this is the whole story. I learned where I am from where I am.”
“Tan: A Memorandum of Family and Open Road” is now available.
