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The Creases Of My Shoe! (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher: Dominic Thomas
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They say you can tell a lot about a man by his shoes - the miles he's walked, the falls he's taken, the ground that shaped him. In The Creases of My Shoe, Dominic Angelo Thomas peels back the layers of a life split between two worlds: the razor-edged streets of the D.C./Maryland corridor and the concrete confines of a prison cell.
Raised as much by his fiercely resourceful grandmother as by the streets themselves, young Dominic learns early that survival has its own curriculum - one taught through coded phone calls, corner hustles, and the silence that follows violence. From the alarm-clock blare of count time to childhood afternoons running errands for Grannie, from a devastating loss that reshapes his sense of family to the daily negotiations of loyalty, love, and authority behind bars, Thomas narrates his own coming-of-age with unflinching honesty.
This is not a redemption story wrapped in a bow. It's a first-person reckoning with the labels - bad, inmate, threat - placed on a wounded child long before he had the words to name what happened to him. Closing with a set of reflection and discussion questions on trauma, identity, and accountability, The Creases of My Shoe asks readers to sit with a hard truth: the survival strategies that once protected a person can, over time, become the very thing imprisoning them.
For readers of urban memoir, prison narratives, and unvarnished true stories from America's overlooked corners - this is a debut that doesn't ask for sympathy, only that you walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
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