Shirley J. Adult Fiction Secrets, Suicide, Family History and Grave Digging
Whoa! 8 year old Wayland Maynard gets sick at school and comes home early only to walk in on his father committing suicide! Plagued by the trauma of not only seeing it, hearing it, he also is haunted by the bits of his father's head that explode and backsplash on him. A tour of a traumatized child's thoughts and his mission to find out why. He hides the only note his father left, "I am not who you think I am," for years. Though his mother asked if his father left a note for some reason Wayland tells her no he didn't. The note haunts him. The family is also blown apart. His mother starts working double-shifts to keep up with the bills, his sister goes teen tramp and though she is 15 she is dating and sleeping with a 20 year old who treats her and Wayland disrespectfully. Wayland turns away from his family and turns to his best friend who is also a Richard (think about it) because the friend's father beats up on him then as the saying goes about stuff rolling down hill...he takes it out on Wayland. They are all each other has so Wayland tolerates it for the most part till he doesn't. Then when Wayland gets a girlfriend, his buddy seems to be making a play for her. Wayland begins looking for samples of his father's writing because certain factors make him think maybe the man who killed himself wasn't his Dad after all. The story plays out very interestingly and there are surprises along the way. A good story, I would recommend it to mature high schoolers on up due to the subject matter.
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