How I Got To Yesterday A Fictionalized Memoir

Welcome to Paul Sedlock's author blog featuring his latest novel, 

 How I Got to Yesterday A Fictionalized Memoir, now available through Amazon in Paperback and Kindle formats and also available in other online stores.

About the Novel:

A thoughtful 20th Century narrative, How I Got to Yesterday a Fictionalized Memoir by Paul Sedlock, covers five decades in the life of working class everyman David Crobak. Divided into six parts with a rich cast of colorful characters, the novel follows David from the Midwest to the West through turbulent times. His adventures, faults, and fears lead him toward addiction, recovery, and a growing acceptance of who he is and where he belongs.

"An evocative narrative of one 

thoughtful man's American life 

in the 20th century, overshadowed 

by politics, sex, guilt, and too 

many Happy Hours."

"Sedlock's prose (especially when 

evoking childhood) is as sharp, 

glittering, and dead-on as the edges 

of a broken bottle, and he shows 

considerable generosity of spirit 

in granting even minor background 

figures deep inner lives and intellect."

--“Kirkus Reviews”

"Sedlock’s prose is clean and elegant, flecked with unique phrasing that fits with the book’s timeline. It’s not every day that readers experience a fictionalized memoir. We’re left wondering which parts of which events are real and which are fabricated—which ultimately lends a sense of mystery to this delightfully readable book. Sedlock’s characters are fully formed—readers know their motivations without having to be told about them. This feat is accomplished by the author’s gift with dialogue, which, page by page, is true to life in the best of ways."

--Assessment from The BookLife Prize

Paul's Bio:

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.

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