...Won't Come Home by Jeff Morris

By Jeff Morris

Jake Preston is an American nomad, wandering the again roads of the United States, staying excessive whereas conserving a self-imposed exile from friends and family. His childhood-including an abusive alcoholic mom who dedicated suicide-left Jake in treatment and hospitalized, his senses numbed via medicinal drugs. This stark coming-of-age story follows Jake from runaway teenager, drug consumer, and alcoholic drifter into sobriety and reluctant yet promising maturity. In coming to phrases along with his new and tenuous sobriety, Jake is eventually pressured to resist a few of the relations matters he has run from his entire existence. whereas dealing with his demons-loneliness, melancholy, and a morbid wish to use-and staying fresh, he finally confronts a family members accountability that might have stumbled on the outdated Jake long past. The answer of this issue exams his mettle and heightens the customers of his fragile sobriety.

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