Author C.E. Joseph's New Book "Cubbyhole Kid" Is the Heartbreaking Memoir of a Young Boy's Struggle to Navigate His Terrifying Childhood With a Cruel and Abusive Father
Recent release "Cubbyhole Kid" from Page Publishing author C.E. Joseph is a poignant tale of survival in a 1960s-era Irish Catholic family under the dominion of a violently alcoholic father with unresolved PTSD. This first-hand account of the vicious beatings, emotional abuse, and constant terror experienced by the author as a four-year-old boy is a devastating indictment of the far-reaching horrors of alcoholism and untreated trauma from military service in wartime.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- C.E. Joseph has completed his new book "Cubbyhole Kid": a heartrending true story of dysfunction and abuse in a California family in mid-1960s.
"Cubbyhole Kid" tells a harrowing survival story of a young four-year-old boy as he recounts his days being raised in a strict Irish Catholic family while expressing his gratitude and love for two incredible women that saved his life—his protective fourteen-year-old sister, his godmother, and his beautiful, religious mother. Together, along with his other siblings, his brothers, they painfully navigated their abusive, alcoholic, ex-military father through the mid-1960s, Los Angeles. While dealing with a severe childhood anxiety, suicidal depression, physical and learning disabilities at such a young age, the boy traveled inside the cubbyhole, a small, two-by-four middle section of the family station wagon, unexpectedly experiencing his World War II veteran father's life-threatening road rage.
With the fear of death always looming, the boy witnessed his father's all too familiar, unpredictable violence, explosive temperament, and heavy drinking during our country's escalating involvement in the Vietnam War, the hippie cultural movement, riots in the streets, and arguably the heyday of rock-and-roll music.
The story describes the boy's fond memories and relationship with his older sister, who bravely kept him shielded from their father's harsh punishments and became like a second mother to him. While he experienced the beauty of life outside the home during his sister's "coming-of-age" teenage years, along with her friends who were part of the youth cultural shift that seemingly took place overnight. The nightly demonstration of violence and abuse, coupled with his father's unwillingness to accept the generational changes taking place with society's youth, and his mother's unexpected illness, would seem too much and test the young boy's faith.
Published by Page Publishing, C.E. Joseph's engrossing book is a deeply personal story of devastating violence and a touching homage to the mother and sister who offered love and comfort to a little boy fighting for his physical and emotional survival.
Readers who wish to experience this gripping and potent work can purchase "Cubbyhole Kid" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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