Why this book?

Now that there is the absolute potential to get this book published, I've been advised that it's time to really start promoting it. Here are a few comments made by one of the many who have helped me to edit Five to Fifteen as to why this book. "Five to Fifteen is the detailed, inglorious, and riveting account of my descent into addiction and finally prison, then my battle to be free and to thrive. In part of the book, I describe the hardships and traumas – some bizarre and extreme - suffered by my parents and my parents’ parents, tracing some of the threads of my own inability to cope functionally to their choices and patterns of thinking and behavior. Not for the purpose of assigning blame or playing victim, though: my choices were and are my responsibility. Five to Fifteen is my story of trying to live, which very early on became a struggle; and ultimately, a fight to protect what piece of my soul might still be intact underneath layers of coping mechanisms. Fortunately, there were also magnificent times and events to remind me of life’s beauty."