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Description
Snap Shot Stories by Maria Mendoza
Written as a memoir of true events based in the Downriver area of Michigan, Booze House is a tour de force emotional ride that vividly and powerfully portrays the experience of surviving a broken family unit! With gritty realism and candor, author Maria Mendoza aka Lisa Ball tells her traumatic tale of trying to help raise her younger autistic brother while being engulfed in a home of instability, addiction, and violence.
Excerpt
Mom, forty-three with sags and bags seen through near sheer spandex and miniskirts, her dark straight hair sprouting gray wings from side to side, skin tinted a brown natural tan even in Michigan s coldest winter months. I never knew a day she wasn t strong, in charge, and oozing with confidence.
Introduction
For whatever reasons, there are people who choose to live lives filled with vice, surrounded by strife, and without an apprehension of consequence. The Live hard, die young motto was one my Mother adopted long before I was born. It was never a life I wanted to be a part of, but I was. This is my story. Maria Mendoza
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