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Normal Avenue
Carroll Boyd, Jr.
其他書名
Everything But Normal
出版
Joseph Dream Publishing
, 2015-05-10
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Religion / General
ISBN
1938613260
9781938613265
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-4xYrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This is the true-life story of Carroll Hunter Boyd Jr., who grew up in the hood on Normal Avenue. Raised by an abusive father and a feisty overly-religious mother, he grappled with many of the same privations that other young men his age faced living in the hood. His personal trials included a tempestuous relationship with his father, an overbearing pastor of a grandmother, church abandonment, a failed marriage and the refusal to succumb to the drug culture and its temptations posed by living in such a dangerous environment.The failings of the family unit and church and the lack of normalcy for many young African-American men in the hood have taken a tremendous toll on this race and its culture. Plagued by hopelessness and despair, Carroll resorted to getting married young as a means of escape. He learned late, how ill-prepared he was for the demands of marriage and parenthood. He wrestled to find his identity, fought to locate his voice and struggled to emerge from the iron-grip of his father and grandmother to become his own man.In the end, Carroll discovered that his true worth was not determined by others, but by his faith in God. He began to see that you can aspire to live free out of human frailty. He has learned to take a hold of his future and by his story he hopes to inspire the next generation into knowing that they are greater than the hood in which they live in.
