My Real Hue

Daniel Yves Eisner

Jul 2017 · Page Publishing Inc

About this ebook

My Real Hue is an extraordinarily brave man’s quest to fully understand and accept himself despite his family obstructing his path. Though it spans five decades, the story is a poignant reminder that adult life is constantly and comprehensively affected by childhood. From the instant readers meet young Danny, his torturous relationship with his parents is evident. His dysfunctional family capitulates everything from challenges with coming to terms with his sexuality to a set of burgeoning neuroses. He discovers the only way to save himself is to sever ties with the very people who brought him into the world. The reader will accompany Danny on his painful journey toward shattering the age-old notions that “blood is thicker than water,” “family is everything,” “family comes first,” “Thou shalt honor thy father and mother,” “You’re going to regret severing your relationship with your parents when they are gone,” and the like. Readers in similar circumstances to Danny’s will be confronting a thought-provoking alternative to the self-destructive, self-loathing, guilt-ridden, depressing, dangerously unhealthy, stressful, and often suicidal existence associated with feeling inextricably attached and obligated to an abusive and dysfunctional family. Danny will ultimately demonstrate to the reader that the potential stigma of being estranged from one’s family may be well worth the tradeoff of being able to live out one’s life far more happily, peacefully, healthfully, and self-fulfilled than one could have ever imagined. To read a review of My Real Hue, please click here.

About the author

 Being a first-generation American born in New York City to an upper middle-class Jewish family headed by a Francophile mother and a British father, raised on the south shore of Long Island and living in metropolitan New York for thirty years followed by thirty-one years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, spending extensive periods of time in Paris, France, connecting with his strong French heritage, and now living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Daniel Yves Eisner had no lack of material to tell his life story. He had become highly respected and recognized as a consultant, expert witness, and educator in the insurance business over a span of forty years, during which he also taught business management courses at a community college for fifteen years, all while coming to terms with his sexuality as a gay man and ultimately facing the fact that he had unknowingly played an active role in a terribly dysfunctional family. The stage had been set for a long, painful, and heartbreaking journey, which led to the ultimate estrangement from his family. In the process of freeing himself from a family which was slowly and methodically destroying his life, Eisner then had to take on the added burden of discovering that there is a stigma surrounding people who have severed ties from their families. Having to hear comments like “Family comes first,” “Blood is thicker than water,” “Honor thy mother and father,” “Nothing is more important than family,” and “You’ll regret it when they’re gone” did not deter him from reaching his goal of living a happy, productive, and loving life.