Local Author Event: Jason Prokowiew, author of War Boys

Saturday, November 21, 2026 · 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Richards Memorial Library — 118 N Washington St., North Attleborough, MA

The Library welcomes Jason Prokowiew, author of

War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir

, winner of the 2025 Aurora Polaris Award for Creative nonfiction. The memoir tells two parallel stories of survival: of Jason's father, and Jason himself. War Boys is an extraordinary exploration of a family’s intergenerational trauma. It’s the memoir of Jason Prokowiew, an adult son seeking to understand his terrifying and abusive father, interwoven with a biography of his father, who experienced unimaginable horrors as a child during World War II. War Boys offers a powerful testament to reconciliation. This is the story of two battle-scarred survivors, father and son, who heal their fractured relationship through the transformative power of claiming and telling their own stories and learning to truly listen to one another.

Free to attend.