Minneapolis firefighter and EMT Jeremy Norton documents the life of an emergency responder in his new memoir, Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response. Norton, who has over 20 years of experience and also holds a degree in creative writing, writes from an insider’s perspective afforded by direct encounters with trauma and death. His stories examine toxic masculinity, white supremacy, sexism, and mental health as he recounts heartbreaking calls, desperate measures, and the moment when his crew responded to the scene of the murder of George Floyd.
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