NORMAN KITZMILLER PUBLICATIONS • MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOVEMBER 29, 2024

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HEADLINE: DAVID KITZMILLER ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF "BORN WITH A TOASTER IN THE BATHROOM"—THE UNSPARING PREQUEL AND ORIGIN STORY OF THE TOASTER UNIVERSE

DATELINE: FORT WAYNE, IN / INDIANAPOLIS, IN — NOVEMBER 29, 2024 — Independent literary imprint Norman Kitzmiller Publications has officially announced the global street release of Born with a Toaster in the Bathroom, the highly anticipated childhood trauma, mental health, and addiction recovery memoir by David Kitzmiller. Serving as the essential prequel to A Step Away from Bathing with a Toaster, this 300-page volume documents the official origin story of the "Toaster" image, tracing a trajectory from volatile childhood survival to absolute creative reclamation.

AN ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION OF NARRATIVE

Born with a Toaster in the Bathroom rewinds the clock to Fort Wayne and Sheridan, Indiana, exploring an adolescence and childhood that offered little in the way of mercy. For decades, Kitzmiller carried the weight of childhood physical and sexual abuse, addiction, bipolar disorder, severe depression, and PTSD. This memoir marks the unblinking account he spent forty years living and the longest time figuring out how to write honestly.

The text examines severe, volatile environments that do not fully announce themselves as damage until decades later. Kitzmiller tackles the heavy institutional silence that rigid religious expectation imposed on pain that deserved to be spoken, detailing the acute loneliness of being told to heal through a belief system that offered nothing back. Within these pages, the early lure of drugs and alcohol surfaces not as classic adolescent rebellion, but as the only available emergency exit from a reality that had become too much to inhabit.

Written with precision and completely devoid of self-pity, the book relies on a distinct prose philosophy: that the most devastating moments require the quietest sentences. This heavy thematic ground is balanced throughout with Kitzmiller's trademark dry, dark survival humor, proving how difficult childhoods produce individuals who learn to laugh as an absolute necessity.

THE TWO REGISTERS OF TRUTH

Departing from standard biographical forms, Born with a Toaster in the Bathroom functions in two distinct registers of truth. The prose narrative captures the adult author looking back with the clarity of distance, while embedded archival poems written during those exact childhood years serve as primary source assets. Written in the middle of the high-friction events being described rather than in reflection of them, these poems provide an immediate presence. The reader simultaneously encounters two distinct voices: the man who successfully survived the descent, and the boy who was not yet sure he would.

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