I Laugh and My Heart Is Breaking

About the Book

Lisa, a young woman, digs into a dusty box that was retrieved from the attic and finds a treasure trove of manuscripts and letters.

Fascinated, she obtains the permission from her Godfather Henry, a retired teacher and writer, to read, select and eventually publish her find.

The selected manuscripts deal with a vast variety of life's aspects and foibles.

The discussion of three fogbound intellectual sailors on the Maine coast delves into deep thoughts, while a story of two teenage boys in rural Germany will put any reader into stitches.

Very sensitively, A Concert interprets a Dvorak string quartet and is complimented in the same mood by a narrative poem Sonata for Guitar and Gardenia.

The sergeant laughs and laughs explains how laughter may be unhealthy, yet it may serve as a pressure valve that helps to handle the stress of combat.

The author could not possibly find a more appropriate and more intriguing title for this book, than: I Laugh and My Heart Is Breaking.

About the Author

U.H. Berner left Germany as a Fulbright Scholar to teach English Literature in the U.S. Retired from the academy, he turned to the family tradition of breeding and training horses with his wife on a small farm in Southeast Texas and working on a major novel: The Bunkhouse Boys of Fort Bison.