How I Got to Yesterday: A Fictionalized Memoir

Born into a working-class family twelve-year-old Dave's idyllic world changes abruptly when his widowed mother remarries and moves to a Cleveland suburb. He has inherited a distant step-father and an abusive step-brother. Meanwhile, his mother, haunted by a family suicide and betrayal, struggles with depression. Dave attends Catholic schools, finds friends, romance, work, marriage, and drinking buddies. Later, along with Wendy and Cyclops, Dave moves to Berkeley, California in an old VW Bug as the turbulent 1960's kick in. How I Got to Yesterday by Paul Sedlock (The Nightdream) is an understated, dark, yet sparkling, story of loss, betrayal, addiction, abuse, recovery, and self-acceptance; an evocative narrative of one man's attempt to find himself and to belong.

Paul Sedlock grew up in Pennsylvania, Texas, Missouri, and Ohio. He attended Catholic and public schools, including a brief stop at Ohio University. His day jobs have included working as a dishwasher, a milling machine operator, a sheet metal worker, a clerk on a psychiatric ward, a stocking clerk, a printing press assistant, a small business owner, a mail carrier, a postal clerk and a supervisor with the U.S. Postal Service. He’s a voracious reader with eclectic tastes in music and film. He and his wife live in southern Oregon.