Status Updates From Alligator Candy

Trauma is a virus, and it infects the people who love you. It is intergenerational.

DNF @ 52% It's a memoir and everyone grieves and tries to move on from the death of a loved one in a different way, but I don't think the readers or anyone else for that matter needs to know every single soul crushing, perverted, hideously violent, horrific detail of the abomination inflicted on the author's murdered 11 year old brother, I just could not go on, TOO MUCH!

“Kids grow up hearing fairy tales, but the biggest fairy tale of all, I realized at the age of four, is that life is safe. Life isn’t safe, I learned. It’s crazy. Evil is real.”

“I thought about how much had changed, how the freedom that Jon had in his final moments seemed so endangered, if not extinct, for children now. The last free generation of kids had let their fears take away their kids’ freedom.”