My Fabricated High School

By John Swofford

My Fabricated High School is a reflective, quietly unsettling exploration of how identity is constructed, remembered, and revised over time. Blending memoir, cultural critique, and philosophical inquiry, the author revisits the idea of "high school" not as a fixed historical place, but as a mental architecture-one shaped by expectation, social pressure, omission, and narrative repair.
Rather than offering a conventional coming-of-age story, the work examines how personal history can be retroactively assembled to fill gaps left by isolation, misunderstanding, or institutional failure. The high school becomes less a building than a symbolic system: a stage where roles are assigned, myths are formed, and credibility is negotiated. Through close introspection and analytical distance, the author probes how fabricated or idealized memories can feel as real-and as consequential-as lived experience.
Underlying the narrative is a broader question: what does it mean to belong, and who gets to define legitimacy? The text resists easy judgments, instead tracing the psychological logic behind reinvention and the human need for coherence. At once personal and philosophical, My Fabricated High School invites readers to reconsider how much of their own past is remembered, how much is edited, and how much is quietly imagined into place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GFCMWKSJ
• ISBN13: 9798242845015
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"