Raised by Wolves Possibly Monsters

<p><span style=color: rgba(45 62 79 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Raw compassionate and perceptive Michael Swerdloff's memoir RAISED BY WOLVES POSSIBLY MONSTERS is a vital excavation of toxic masculinity's rot-and an urgent call for individual and cultural transformation. </span><strong style=color: rgba(45 62 79 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>~Edward Sung for IndieReade</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>He learned early that power meant violence.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>That love could not be trusted.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>And that vulnerability was weakness.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>So Michael Swerdloff became exactly what the world around him trained him to be: dangerous dishonest emotionally disconnected and spiraling toward self-destruction.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>But RAISED BY WOLVES POSSIBLY MONSTERS is not just a memoir about surviving abuse addiction and toxic masculinity-it's about what happens when a man decides to stop running from himself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In a story that moves from criminal underworlds to spiritual awakening from chaos to compassion Swerdloff takes readers through an astonishing transformation that includes recovery deep inner work meditation retreats healing practices and encounters that would change his life forever.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Brutally honest and deeply moving this memoir offers something rare: a portrait of male accountability without excuses-and proof that even the most damaged people are capable of change.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This is not a story about perfection.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It's a story about choosing humanity one painful step at a time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A portion of the proceeds from this book are going to </span><u style=color: rgba(17 85 204 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>RAINN</u><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> (Rape Abuse & Incest National Network) and </span><u style=color: rgba(17 85 204 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Good Men Project</u><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>.</span></p>