At the heart of this book lie the powerful universal forces of love/loss, determination, family and the value of tapping into the power that lies within each of us. "Ready for the Next Round" chronicles the journey of a poor sharecropper's son who migrates from the Deep South with his family for a better life in the North. But assimilating into the strange Philadelphia culture comes with its own challenges. Soon he gets caught up in the struggles and complexities of this new world and finds himself in trouble - time in prison, reformatory school and ostracized from family and friends. Later,...