The "Back of the Yards of Chicago" was Sonny's playground. Cattle pens, sheep pens, pig pens, and piles of animal dung produced a smell that drove you out of the neighborhood during the hot, humid days in Chicago. His life goes through a tyrannical mother, alcoholic in-laws, a bipolar manic depressant wife with schizophrenic tendencies, and a son born with the lack of antibodies in his system to fight off the most common diseases. There will be brief periods of sadness, disbelief, arousal, and doubt. At the point of doubt, you will be involved in one of the biggest questions asked: "Why did...

Sonny's book is a tangle of opinions that are soft, hard, and surreal and sometimes downright to a point of total reality. This book is not for the easy hearted as it sometimes leans in a way that is crushing to ones own personal thoughts about life in general, a God, sex, education, kids and politics.You will find yourself wanting to argue points or let's'say just opinions, but that is why it is written to see the real world or the made up world of opinions. It's hard to believe that a lot of news, if not all, is from unnamed sources or is it just opinion. How do we live with a news media...