Keith Minor

Raised by Crabs in the Weeds Keith Minor

This heart wrenching, true story of family dysfunction is narrated in extended flashback form by the adult survivor of this harrowing tale of wretched human acts committed by people who are supposed to love you more than any other people in the world; his own family! The author utilizes the subconscious of his post traumatic stress disorder mind to resurrect the reminiscence of his torture, pain, despair, sorrow, anger, and survival as told through the eyes of the author, when he was an adolescent. The author reels you into his childhood and the day to day mental and physical abuse, deceit, manipulation and evil plot to cover up generational, and systematic family dysfunction. With flashbacks and foreshadowing to appropriately explain this drama, the author straps you into a roller coaster of the emotions he felt then and now; as well as making the reader contemplate the choices they would make in the visually, and interactive way the author chooses to tell the story in first and third person. The reader will be shaken at their emotional core as the unbridled truth of the author whisper's into the literary mind's eye of deductive reasoning to warn, encourage, and uplift any reader. This case study, that was thirty-six years in the making on family dysfunction and mental illness takes an nostalgic ride through the 1980's, 90', and early 2000's; with a wonderful exploration of the English language that complements the Bildungsroman memoir! The author pours his mind, heart, and soul on the pages in an attempt save his own mental sanity and others from having to experience such an ordeal!