This book is based on a true story about a boy born into a poor and uneducated family in 1913.
The young man felt unwanted, unloved and had hope for a better life.
Often feeling imprisoned by his circumstances, he remained hopeful.
He sought to find answers about the existence of God.
The adults he questioned never gave him a satisfactory answer.
His life was full of physical, emotional and mental abuse.
His journey to find hope led him to many adventures including a home with some bootleggers, a five-year stay as a deckhand and cook on a barge on the Mississippi River from the ages of 12-17
His suicide attempt was miraculously interrupted by a phone call .
This book will make you think. Sometimes it will bring tears to your eyes and other times make you laugh.
It is a story of hope filled with tragedy and triumph.
It begins in a town on the Mississippi River and you will enjoy meeting the people in the book.
You will be amazed at the events that transpire in his life from birth to death.
At the end of his life, he was chesrished by many.
关于作者
Helen Harris grew up in a pastors home where she developed an interest in people and their personal story.. In addition to that, she had aunts and cousins who were great story tellers and she still remembers most of them. She began telling stories at age six and is full of real life stories
She wrote one story in the seventies that was published. She wrote a newspaper column in a local town paper for about ten years. She gave up the job when she became a registered nurse and began a full time job in a hospital.
While there she had one surgeon who would beg for a story during a surgical procedure. He asked her to write them up for a book and he would pay for the publication. She never found the time to write them down for him.
At age 77 she has completed her first book at the request of Jay William Hawkins who lived the story in this book. Although this is her first book, she has begun another one.
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