"Sometimes the best way
to understand something of value is to study its absence".

Description Drexel fondly recalls his beautiful childhood, which was spent in a small over the hill community in The Bahamas call Montell Heights. Even though they were poor, yet those were the best years of his life. However, one day his life was shattered into a million little pieces, when his father walked out on them never to return. Soon thereafter, his father would attempt to kill his entire family. These events turned Drexel into a quiet but angry teenager, who violently rebelled against the system.
powerful read
“The Fight of My Life Is Wrapped Up In My Father.”
“It is the study of the negative aftermath of absentee fathers in The Bahamas. With simplicity, the thrill of realism and death in hot pursuit, Drexel chronicles his life story in a riveting narrative that starts out with a bang from chapter one. After being shot four times and presumed dead, this former gang general slowly begins to pick up the broken pieces of his mangled life. He retraced his steps and those of others, to learn where they all went wrong. This process took him more than ten years to properly research and write.
It was through his interviews with death row inmates and other rival gang members that he discovered they all shared a common bond of neglect, rejection and fatherlessness. Therefore, in their quest to be loved, accepted and appreciated they created a world of their own. A world of criminality and tyranny, but in that world they found love.
Please see an excerpt from a candid interview with Drexel Deal on his book:
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