Trailer Park Parable: A Memoir of How Three Brothers Strove to Rise Above Their Broken Past, Find Forgiveness, and Forge a Hopeful Future

By Tyler Zed

Book Overview

#17 on the PW Bestseller Trade Paper Frontlist

Growing up amid addiction and chaos in a Minnesota trailer park, Tyler Zed and his two brothers broke the cycle of abuse and forged a different path.

"Attempted murder victim told the Brainerd Dispatch she believes her sixteen-year-old son saved her."

This is the news article detailing the event that would drastically change Tyler Zed's life and that of his family forever.

Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Tyler and his two brothers filled their days with chaotic fun, from playing hockey to building forts to making their own home movies. The household was also full of addiction and abuse that ultimately led to their father attempting to murder their mother on Christmas Eve 2007.

Trailer Park Parable follows Tyler and his family before Christmas Eve 2007, the events leading to that night, and the years afterward. It trails the boys as they deal with varying degrees of PTSD and their own battles with addiction, before they eventually turned their creative coping mechanisms, like their YouTube channels, into million-subscriber successes.

From living in a trailer park to running a multi-million-dollar business, Trailer Park Parable highlights a true, American-dream story, countering a popular narrative that tells us you may as well not even try, the system is rigged against you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C7P7S8VL
• ISBN13: 9798888451922
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

When you cry reading a book...

This is on my wish list as a hardback because I read this in paperback as a guest, and I could not put it down until I was done. I literally brought it onto the beach the next morning. It's heartbreaking, truly, yet hopeful. Tyler's upbringing is a world away from my own, but the writing paints a clear picture of just what this family endured, and how he rose above it all. You cheer for the protagonist, but not before your heart breaks for him. I am buying my own copy, so it can be read again and shared, it gives one optimism-even in the current state of this country. Oct 2024

This book is so good I couldn't put it down

I enjoyed it so much

Inspirational life story!

I purchased this book to support Tyler Zed and I am so glad I did. It took me less than a week to read it. Great book! If you come from a military/law enforcement background or if you've suffered from childhood abuse, you'll find pieces of this story relatable. Great life lessons and full of hope.