Review: Refreshingly Real
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2013
Douglas Wallace's memoir, 'Everything Will Be All Right,' deserves a literary standing ovation.  Growing up in a family gripped by generational poverty and cyclical despair, Wallace courageously overcame the odds and believed in the near impossible.  With candid, yet compassionate storytelling, he describes the difficulties and shame that accompany raw, overwhelming poverty and addiction.  Wallace tells how he grew up, with no one believing him and life circumstances stacked up against him, and yet his faith, hard work, and positive choices lifted him out of the darkness.  This is a story about hope amidst hopelessness and success amidst failure.  In the prologue, Wallace says that it would have been so easy to 'settle for lives of quiet desperation,' like so many of his family members and friends, and yet he didn't.  'Everything Will Be All Right' is filled with one man's untethered voice, his transparent journey, and his inspiring life.  Readers will be captivated and inspired all at the same time, and this book will remind them that everything can be all right for them too no matter what they are facing or have been dealt in life.  I highly recommend this book!