You are experiencing, by reading this book, the only fiction suspense involving true events ever published where the writer is actually the acting victim. By assigning the name Godmother to the woman raising me as her son when mother looked for greener pastures with another man away from the coal fields of West Virginia, this book is written. Unless you have the stomach to digest Godmother's wrath on Mickey, the boy in this book, I strongly recommend that you not read this book. She is mentally unstable and exhibits love and compassion to the point of no return during her rage lasting only minutes. Her dependency on sex with his dad while her husband sleeps in the room next door, erupts in attempted murder on a cold winter night. Godmother's brutal and abusive manner on the boy, while his dad works in the mine, forces him to use whatever control he can muster to hold her at bay for another day. His father, uneducated, is unable to understand her sudden rage dissipating without reason. He tries to satisfy her desire to brutality by engaging in her fulfillment by showing his anger striking the boy with his leather strap repeatedly while she engages in laughter and hand clapping, HIT EM AGAIN. Either Mickey goes to the Union Mission or you're out in the cold, she tells his father. Events leave his father his only choice, take the boy to the Mission. The Union Mission was the boy's only salvation away from her brutally and his father beatings. But, life isn't peaches and cream. The brutality continues for months until his father suddenly brings him home back to Godmother where she is unexpectedly confronted with Mickey home. The rage continues for years, until...
