Self-revelation memoir by Canadian author, Russ Grabb.
CREATIVE NONFICTION BY RUSS GRABB

TRACES OF A BOY

Traces of a Boy is the out-loud-narration diary of an injured child in search of untroubled peace. It's a story that exposes the barbarity of opposite-sex incest, bone-breaking violence, and the depraved indifference of mainstream society.

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In this memoir you will encounter:

Gripping Emotion

Refreshing Candor

Gripping Emotion

It betrays the lengths of desperation innocent children will go to survive the unsurvivable. 

Scene from Forrest Gump depicting, for dramatic effect, the shocking essence of Russ Grabb's memoir.

Shocking Truth

Refreshing Candor

Gripping Emotion

It submits the scathing indictment of human cruelty and shines an uncomfortable light on those three things that define Canadians: willful blindness, grandeur worship, and depraved indifference.

Russ Grabb in the ICU at age 67 in Vancouver, awaiting double heart procedure.

Refreshing Candor

Refreshing Candor

Refreshing Candor

It offers up the aching confession of an early-life trauma survivor and a dying man who knows full well he's not without considerable blame himself.

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