Prisoner of Hope

<p>This book is based on a true story about a boy born into a poor and educated family in 1913.</p><p>The young man felt unwanted unloved and had hope for a better life.</p><p>Often feeling imprisoned by his circumstances he remained hopeful..</p><p>He sought to find answers about the existence of God.</p><p>The adults he questioned never gave him a satisfactory answer.</p><p>His life was full of physical emotional and mental abuse.</p><p>His journey to find hope led him to many adventures including a home with some bootleggers a five-year stay as a deckhand and cook on a barge on the Mississippi River from the ages of 12-17..</p><p>His suicide attempt was miraculously interrupted by a phone call .</p><p>This book will make you think. Sometimes it will bring tears to your eyes and other times make you laugh.</p><p>It is a story of hope filled with tragedy and triumph.</p><p>It begins in a town on the Mississippi River and you will enjoy meeting the people in the book.</p><p>You will be amazed at the events that transpire in his life from birth to death.</p><p>At the end of his life he was chesrished by many.</p>