An eleven-year-old boy's struggle to survive the shocking death of his father. After three long years of misery and torment, the grieving boy senses happiness within his grasp and passionately reaches for it. But his mentally-deranged mother has other plans. She wants her son to wallow in misery with her and unleashes her worst mental and verbal attacks she can conjure up to keep him down. But the boy is too smart for her. He knows his mother is a genuine nutcase and easily overcomes her devious plot. After his mother realizes she has failed to subdue her son, she begins to devise ways to get rid of him. She laces chocolate truffles with potassium cyanide for the boy's dessert at school. Luckily for the boy, he tastes one but they are too sweet, so he decides to give them to his begging classmates for lunch. To his horror death falls upon his classmates. His life is on the line when staff and students both turn on him. He scarcely escapes death as the police come just in time to save him. He is released in his mother's custody. She attempts to convince both the police and the boy he committed the crime to take the blame off herself. The boy's bad dreams turn into his worst nightmare. Then the implacable struggle for survival begins...
James Haddad is a native of Miami, Florida, and is a former journalist for the St. Croix Avis Newspaper. He has done extensive research in child abuse and neglect and worked as a volunteer for the Department of Children and families, and is a qualified expert in his field. He is a former candidate for the Florida State Senate. He attended Florida International University for his Master's Degree. He is a columnist for Today Magazine. This is his seventh classical novel. He is he author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling novel, Eyes of a Child. James Haddad is available for select speaking engagements. To inqire about a possible appearance, please oontact Commonwealth Books at commonwealthbooks@aol.com Author's Email jameshaddad21@gmail.com Jacket art by author/Shutterstock author photo donated by author Commonwealth Books Inc., New York 2021 www.commonwealthbooksinc.com
Show moreAn eleven-year-old boy's struggle to survive the shocking death of his father. After three long years of misery and torment, the grieving boy senses happiness within his grasp and passionately reaches for it. But his mentally-deranged mother has other plans. She wants her son to wallow in misery with her and unleashes her worst mental and verbal attacks she can conjure up to keep him down. But the boy is too smart for her. He knows his mother is a genuine nutcase and easily overcomes her devious plot. After his mother realizes she has failed to subdue her son, she begins to devise ways to get rid of him. She laces chocolate truffles with potassium cyanide for the boy's dessert at school. Luckily for the boy, he tastes one but they are too sweet, so he decides to give them to his begging classmates for lunch. To his horror death falls upon his classmates. His life is on the line when staff and students both turn on him. He scarcely escapes death as the police come just in time to save him. He is released in his mother's custody. She attempts to convince both the police and the boy he committed the crime to take the blame off herself. The boy's bad dreams turn into his worst nightmare. Then the implacable struggle for survival begins...
James Haddad is a native of Miami, Florida, and is a former journalist for the St. Croix Avis Newspaper. He has done extensive research in child abuse and neglect and worked as a volunteer for the Department of Children and families, and is a qualified expert in his field. He is a former candidate for the Florida State Senate. He attended Florida International University for his Master's Degree. He is a columnist for Today Magazine. This is his seventh classical novel. He is he author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling novel, Eyes of a Child. James Haddad is available for select speaking engagements. To inqire about a possible appearance, please oontact Commonwealth Books at commonwealthbooks@aol.com Author's Email jameshaddad21@gmail.com Jacket art by author/Shutterstock author photo donated by author Commonwealth Books Inc., New York 2021 www.commonwealthbooksinc.com
Show moreJames Haddad is a native of Miami, Florida, and is a former journalist for the St. Croix Avis Newspaper. He has done extensive research in child abuse and neglect and worked as a volunteer for the Department of Children and families, and is a qualified expert in his field. He is a former candidate for the Florida State Senate. He attended Florida International University for his Master's Degree. He is a columnist for Today Magazine. This is his seventh classical novel. He is he author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling novel, Eyes of a Child. James Haddad is available for select speaking engagements. To inqire about a possible appearance, please oontact Commonwealth Books at commonwealthbooks@aol.com Author's Email jameshaddad21@gmail.com Jacket art by author/Shutterstock author photo donated by author Commonwealth Books Inc., New York 2021 www.commonwealthbooksinc.com
Praise for BOY . . . . "Boy" by James W. Haddad is an eloquent and emotionally compelling read from first page to last. An impressively crafted work of literary fiction by an author with a genuine flair for originality and the kind of narrative driven storytelling that creates memorable characters and an inherently fascinating read from beginning to end." --James A. Cox MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "This extraordinary, moving novel is an instant classic, a novel that will be read and discussed for many decades to come." --E. Ted Gladue author of The Birth Of China and Miami
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