Hearing the Echoes

A Memoir of Containment

By: Alex Parkview

Narrated by: Todd Morgan

Hearing the Echoes is a raw, unflinching memoir about living with the unrelenting auditory hallucinations of combat—mortar rounds slamming into the ground, explosions ripping through silence, and machine gun fire that erupts without warning. For years, these intrusive sounds dictated the terms of every interaction, fracturing relationships, demanding constant withdrawal, and leaving no room for sustained connection.

This is not a story of transcendence or complete recovery. It is the unvarnished account of containment: learning to interrupt episodes that once ran unchecked, to draw a line between internal perceptual events and external reality, and to maintain functionality when continuity is never guaranteed. Through the collapse of three marriages, the brutal realities of single fatherhood, and the physical toll of chronic pain and surgical interventions, the author charts a path through limitation rather than beyond it.

This book lays bare the cost of living with what cannot be extinguished: the fractured conversations with daughters that could not be retrieved.

©2025 Alex Parkview (P)2026 Alex Parkview

"When your internal world in under siege"

A well written insight into PTSD and the harsh reality of how the trauma affects the everyday life. But like the yin yang the book also highlights healing and growth. How healing won't happen immediately and that it takes time and you should allow yourself the time you need to heal.
It explored how music can find you even in the darkest of places. "Turning music into a tool for termination rather than mere distraction."

The book did not sugar coat the reality of how PTSD or trauma in general can strain your personal relationships. But it did give hope that there will always be someone who will stick by your side on your good and bad days and even though it may not always feel like it, Hearing the Echoes acts as a reminder that; you are not alone.

The book perfectly showed how trauma, the way it affects you as well as healing is not linear. It is a journey not an event; there is no set timeline for recovery. It is a complicated, painful process and while the scars may never leave you... in time it will get better.

It is beautifully written with good a narrator!

Raw, real, personal!

It’s personal, it’s real, as a vet it spoke to my Core! As a counselor, I wanted to be there for the author! I’ll definitely be giving this out to my service members. Thank you!!!

military

Great book on what military personal go through. It definitely opens your eyes on what goes on in the military.

The untold truth combat afterlife

This was an interesting listen. From a person that has never been in the military and has no close relatives that have been it is humbling to hear how combat can change peoples lives. This has given me a tiny view into what some of the people that have served our great nation have been and are going through in their daily lives. I thank you for your service to our country and wish you well in your ongoing dealings with the fallout of your service

Personal account of PTSD and effects

Short, focused, no-candy coating account of a PTSD survivor making it through one day, year, relationship at a time. The pains, the strains on loved ones, the frayed schedules all on honest display. Narration by Todd Morgan is appropriately stoic and feels like reading a journal, in a good way. [Disclosure: I received this title for free and listened at 2.0x.]