Lab Rat A Reckoning : The Memoir
Overview
They called him broken.
Dangerous.
Crazy.
But no one asked what happened to him.
Lab Rat: A Reckoning is a brutal art hybrid memoir about survival in the aftermath of abuse, betrayal, illness, silence, and erasure. Through fragmented memory, sharp humor, grief, rage, art, and reflection, James E. Heldt reconstructs the emotional wreckage left behind by family violence, AIDS-era trauma, medical neglect, toxic relationships, and the lifelong cost of being treated as disposable.
From military bases in the South to the glittering illusion of Las Vegas, from hospital rooms and art studios to the beaches of California and Hawaii, this memoir moves through memory like shattered glass-beautiful, dangerous, and impossible to hold without bleeding.
But this is not a story about victimhood.
It is a reckoning.
A reclamation of voice.
A refusal to disappear.
A testimony written in survival, fire, pigment, blood, and breath.
For anyone who has ever been silenced, discarded, or forced to survive what should have destroyed them-this book speaks.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798995145400
- ISBN-10: 9798995145400
- Publisher: James E. Heldt
- Publish Date: May 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.58 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.82 pounds
- Page Count: 276
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