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Mr. In-Between
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781495347887
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 18 2014
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
He's been Mr. In-Between from birth, the middle child in a family of five siblings. His father is a practical steel-mill worker, his mother a free spirit who considers dullness the only true sin. Loving both, trying to please both, leaves him torn between their ideals.
A promising athletic career provides opportunity for a college education, but clashes with his youthful reliance on street reputation and toughness. A need for connection, for a sense of place, struggles against the urge to explore and take risks. By the time he's ten, he's drinking and spiraling into a world of severe substance abuse.
Ricocheting between addiction and sobriety creates a state of constant flux, where holding the middle ground between extremes proves impossible. An end to his pinball-like progression through life is inevitable, but can a man used to living life to the extreme find any lasting peace?
A powerful, fictionalized memoir fueled by Bob Kearney's personal experiences, Mr. In-Between offers a realistic and poignant view of the uneven struggle between addiction and recovery.
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