Will to Survive: Fear God and Keep Your Bowels Clear

In 1963, eight-year-old William Greene shares a cramped Victory home with his parents and four siblings in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario. Grandpa Ernie arrives unexpectedly and straight away alters the household balance.In 1989, thirty-three-year-old Will is a husband and father, settled into a comfortable family life. Like a bolt from the blue, he begins to endure blurred memories and distorted perception-shifting between two moments in time, twenty-six years apart.As Will tries to focus on the now and enjoy life, his past and present overlap as the troubling episodes escalate. He then imagines the implausible: Am I trapped in some strange, warped reality?Set against a country coming of age, WILL TO SURVIVE: Fear God And Keep Your Bowels Clear explores how memory withstands the passage of time, how identity is formed, and whether the past ever truly lets go.

Pagina's: 357, Paperback, Mike J Read