The Provider's Curse

THE PROVIDER'S CURSE Six Men. Six Countries. One Brutal Truth.What does a man owe the people he loves?Everything.They did not leave because they were brave. They left because staying was no longer survivable. Six men. Six countries. Six families who pooled everything they had - savings, loans, prayers, and borrowed hope - to send one man north. To America. To the place where money grows from trees, or so they had been told.The trees were not there.What was there: detention centers with cold floors and fluorescent lights that never went off. Employers who knew exactly what an undocumented worker could and could not do about a stolen wage. Churches run by men who wore the collar and took the offering and gave nothing back. Streets where the color of your skin was a tax you paid every single day, in small amounts, without receipt.And back home, the phone calls kept coming. Send money. We are waiting. We are counting on you.They fell. Every one of them fell. Into addiction. Into crime. Into choices that a man with options would never have made. But here is what nobody tells you about a man who carries the weight of an entire family on his back - he gets back up. Because the people at home cannot know he is down. Because the alternative is unthinkable. Because he is a provider. And the provider does not stop.The Provider's Curse is not a comfortable book. It was not written to comfort you. It was written to make you see - really see - the men who built your cities, cleaned your offices, drove your cars, and sent every spare dollar home to a family that needed it more than they needed to eat properly that week.Stand in their shoes for sixty seconds. Then tell me what you would have done differently.

Pagina's: 210, Paperback, Indy Pub