Review: Exceptional.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
All I can say is bravo. This book is fantastic. I love how Akley is changing up genres all in one work. It's memoir, poetry, some fiction, but most of all it's heart. It's gripping, gritty, and real in a way that makes you feel at times like you're sitting around a fire and listening to stories and wondering about the person whose mouth they are coming from.It's not very often that stories feel completely genuine and are able to highlight so many different relationships and emotions. This book is a look at a life, a look at a family, and a very real and significant look at how a family and a life look when depression and desperation are mixed in. This is just an utterly honest portrayal of the struggles of a man and his family to simply live and survive. I was so struck at I read this book with the quest for self actualization and you can actually see the levels of hierarchy akin to Maslow's theory as you read the book.I love this, and appreciate so much the honesty and the guts that it took to write and publish it.