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DOG WATER FREE, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

DOG WATER FREE, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

Jay, Michael

Paperback

Self Help

ISBN10: 1976056594
ISBN13: 9781976056598
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 20 2017
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At least you'll always have your dad, long after I'm gone.

That's what Marge tells her four children on the day she learns of her terminal illness, as she begins preparing each of them for life on their own without her.

Still on that mission twenty months later, everything changes when her husband dies first.

Dog Water Free is the true coming-of-age story of Mikee, growing up on Detroit's Westside, orphaned at fifteen, and searching for emotional clarity in the wake of a mother's deathbed wisdom and a father's secret double life.

What follows is a journey no one could have written on purpose - an education that carries an altar boy from the heart of Detroit's Westside to Harvard, to a private reception with Queen Elizabeth II, to an independent study with America's maestro Leonard Bernstein, to a blessing from Pope John Paul II, and to a friendship with a college classmate who would become the first woman elected to lead an Islamic nation, Benazir Bhutto.

At its core, Dog Water Free is a true story of family, faith, loss, resilience, and the power of prayer. It's a family saga about an ordinary mother who is grounded as much by faith as by circumstance. Readers of The Glass Castle and Angela's Ashes will find a kindred story here about adolescent bewilderment, hard-won resilience, family secrets, and a mother's love strong enough to outlast her own death.

NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite - IndieBRAG Medallion for Nonfiction

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