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At Life's Edge: The Boy Who Dreamed of Becoming a Doctor and Learned to Live Again After the Storm
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 8 2026
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He dreamed of becoming a doctor.
Instead, life dragged him through violence, fear, addiction, prison, and years of loss.
At Life's Edge is a powerful and deeply human novel inspired by true events. Through an intimate first-person voice, Sergio Omar Arufe tells the story of a boy who wanted to heal, a young man who lost his way, and a father who had to confront the darkest parts of himself in order to find a reason to keep living.
From a wounded childhood to the streets, from addiction to prison cells, from riots and despair to faith, books, and inner transformation, this novel follows a life marked by pain-but not defeated by it. It is the story of survival, but also of awakening. Of learning that freedom is more than walking out of a prison. Of discovering that even a broken life can still be rebuilt.
Raw, emotional, and hopeful, At Life's Edge speaks to anyone who has ever felt lost, trapped by the past, or afraid they had gone too far to change. It is a story about falling, rising, and choosing a different ending.
Above all, it is a story about the child who still lived inside the man-the child who once wanted to heal, and who, after the storm, finally began to understand how.
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