Cleaning out My Closet

Book excerpt: In a small town Mississippi town located 30 minutes from Laurel, things happen you would never believe. This small place is a small quiet mom and pop town. Barnard lived there with his mother and father. His father spent over half of Barnards life in and out of prison. This made his mother have to work extra hard to raise his brother and him. Times were hard and having to foot the bills and bring home the groceries were even harder. But thank God, for his fathers mother, Big Moma, and his aunt, Nee Nee, they took up his fathers slack. Being the only boy they had spoiled his father and this made him sorry and irresponsible. Coming from a home that was built on selling liquor and gambling Barnards father thought he did not have to work and he began to get by on scheming and gambling. He went from petty hustling to being involved in upscale crimes and this landed him in and out of prison . . . Leaving a wife and two kids behind. Barnard hated how his brother and mother would sit and cry every time his father went to jail. He always promised he would never end up like his father (even though he looked just like him.)