G.A. Johnson's debut novel mixes spirituality and inspiration with the brutality and filth of street life and addiction. Murphy Johnson was the man the world walked around. He held a blank cardboard sign, a streamer of drool stretched down the front of his denim jacket. His eyes were like a frozen river, nothing moved on the surface, but the water flowed beneath an expression frosted over by four-decades of drugs, alcohol, and concrete beds. Life after witnessing his father's murder at the hands of the Klan was a narcotic waste land that took Murphy from Neshoba County, Mississippi to...
G.A. Johnson's debut novel mixes spirituality and inspiration with the brutality and filth of street life and addiction. Murphy Johnson was the man...
Columbine. Sandy Hook. Isaac's life began on the day of the first shooting and his mother put a gun to his head the night of the last. What happens between those tragic dates is Isaac's life, and the story of a mother convinced her son would commit mass murder. Emma was ordinary, educated, and middle-class; how she dawned that ghastly duty lies in a saga of infidelity, divorce, greed, and financial ruin. Isaac was a side note in a family torn apart. He took sanctuary in the realm of his imagination, but it came under siege. At school Isaac's withdrawn nature pegged him as 'special needs'....
Columbine. Sandy Hook. Isaac's life began on the day of the first shooting and his mother put a gun to his head the night of the last. What happens be...
