Pretty Much Dead - Softcover

Billy D. Jarrett

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ISBN 10: 0979761638 ISBN 13: 9780979761638

Publisher: The Lionhead Press, 2007

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Billy is a young Black boy suffering along with his mother and siblings from an obsessive-compulsive fathers unrelenting abuse. With an overactive imagination, Billy often escapes from his chaotic environment into a world of conjured imagery where he envisions cleverly inventive ways to do away with his father. After a night of explosive violence when his mother is nearly killed, Billy's fantasies and colorful schemes suddenly begin to evolve into legitimate plans of opportunity to commit patricide.

Set in Gary Indiana during the early sixties and mid seventies, his experiences become both comical and poignant while he seeks the means and an accomplice to help him be rid of his abuser.

With the injustices of The Color Purple, the humorous wanting reflections of The Christmas Story, and the adolescent discovery of Cooley High, Billys fantasies and schemes collide with reality after an innocent boy is killed.

This true story of courage and survival culminates in philosophical questions of faith, hope, forgiveness, and redemption.

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About the Author

Billy D. Jarrett is a graduate of Purdue University in Indiana, and St. Mary s College in Moraga, California. He currently lives in Northern California with his wife and two sons. A writer of poetry and short stories, Billy is a surviving witness to many years of violent parental domestic abuse. His uniquely powerful and often entertaining memoir was written to speak encouragement to the quiet ones whom have endured similar struggles, and to broaden the emotional and spiritual intellect of those who have not.

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