Willow in a Storm
James Peter Taylor & Kathleen Murphy-Taylor
Scarletta Press
10 South Fifth Street, Suite 1105, Minneapolis, MN 55402
9780976520153, $14.95, www.scarlettapress.com
Once in awhile, the rehabilitation system does work--but never
without cost. "Willow in a Storm" is the story of James Peter
Taylor in it's entirety. A man whose life started off well enough,
once a star sports star as a child his life quickly fell into turmoil as
a psychological backlash against his childhood abuse. His life spirals
into an unintentional murder of a banker, which lands him in prison for
forty years--a life sentence where he was set to die there. And he
almost did, twice, one of those attempts leaving him blind. Somehow, he
survives, finds inspiration, and makes a better person of himself.
He's paroled, and now reveals his life story and all the turbulence
and triumph that spilled from it. "Willow in a Storm" is a
conflicting yet enthralling life story from the first page to the last,
and is highly recommended for community library memoir shelves.
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