Sunset in the Sand - Haikus and Limericks for the Dark Night of the Soul
CLARK VAN TUSSENBROOK

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"They say God never gives you more than you can handle. They are full of shit."
When Clark Van Tussenbrook's adult son suffers a catastrophic spinal cord injury, life as he knows it ends under the hot sun in the sand dunes of Utah. Just as his family begins to crawl forward, Clark is hit with a life altering diagnosis of his own. Sunset in the Sand is a brutal, funny, and unflinchingly honest memoir of what happens when rock bottom turns out to be just a ledge — and the drop keeps going.
Blending dark humor, raw narrative, and the occasional fart joke, Clark walks us through trauma, grief, the absolute absurdity of life, a strained relationship with hope and faith, and the unexpected strength of dogs, family, poetry, music, and sipping late-night lemonade. This is not a story about triumph or redemption wrapped in tidy bows. It’s a story about survival, the ridiculousness of it all, and the strange beauty that can still surface when everything falls apart.
For the desperate, the faithless, the hopeful skeptics — this book is for you.