Against the Wind

<p><strong>The story of a family forged by history held together by love and driven by a fierce determination to survive</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Horst Freyhofer was born in 1938 in Düsseldorf Germany and survived the Allied bombings that reduced his city to near rubble. In 1963 he came to the Unites States in search of a better life.   </p><p></p><p>Sue was born in 1944 in Bauxite Arkansas a small mining town still reeling from the Great Depression. An ocean away from Horst's upbringing her life followed a different path-one filled with her own struggles joys and hardships as a young single mother.</p><p></p><p>When Horst and Sue met in 1973 at UCLA during a time of political upheaval and societal change they found in each other a shared resilience and a quiet defiance of the hands they'd been dealt. Together they determined to make a better future for themselves and build a new family: one rooted in compassion and perseverance and secured with an unshakable bond.</p><p></p><p><em>Against the Wind</em> is the powerful autobiography of two determined people whose struggles span the globe from post-WWII Europe and small-town America to the tumult of Vietnam-era protests in California to years of living in Mexico marriage in Arkansas and eventually finding a place for their family to grow and thrive in New England. This is a story of survival ambition change and the enduring strength of love.</p>