This is an easy-to-read story that begins with the writer as a child, born into a lower-class family plagued by alcoholism, violence and abuse. Lighthearted at times, this memoir takes the reader through his life of depression, twisted at an early age by self-image and self-esteem issues. From being a fourth-grader with a physical deformity, who tries his best to make friends and fit in; to being the junior high school kid who makes a decision that changes the rest of his life. The writer tells of his alcoholic father who would spend all the rent money in bars, come home in drunken tirades,...