Something I Am Not

By Cher Gatto

Description:

A father who never loved him … A woman who stole his worth … And a brother he couldn’t protect. Where does someone run in the face of his deepest shame?

Billy McQueen works hard to keep his life together ... and concealed. At seventeen, he dreams of an escape from the barroom, his father’s manipulation, and the advances of his father’s girlfriend. However, on his eighteenth birthday, Billy is introduced to a younger brother he never knew he had. An eight-year-old who is barely capable of navigating the corrupt world of his father’s boxing club. In order to secure his freedom, Billy must fight for it. To save his little brother who is next in line for the slave trade ... he must die for it. SOMETHING I AM NOT is for anyone who has ever questioned who he is, why he is here, and if the world would be a better place without him.

Book Takeaway:

SOMETHING I AM NOT is a spiritual allegory of living under the wrong father and the freedom of finding the right one.

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Why the author wrote this book:

At first I began writing to escape the injustice and depravity I saw around me on the mission field in Mexico. Much of it, I could do nothing about. I needed a way to process the pain of it, but also a way to direct the ending ... to have the story of someone's life find redemption and freedom. SOMETHING I AM NOT is that story.