Prisoner of Hope

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This book is based on a true story about a boy born into a poor and educated 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.