Taking Back the Bullet
Description
This contemporary, character-driven novel is about people who are stigmatized. However, once they discover their true identities, each is empowered to begin the journey of life's purpose.
The man characters are: police officer Tom Jennings, obese as a mutant Idaho potato in a jiggling gelatin suit; James Odessa-Smith, with his schizoaffective disorder; and young Suanna Morningcloud, a person with albinism, half Nez Perce Indian and half Caucasian.
Meeting during a botched bank robbery in Prairie Grove, Kansas, they experience tragedy and trauma. Forever changed and connected, they are forced to ask, "Who am I and where do I belong?"
Taking Back the Bullet explores the themes of stigma, identity, and self-discovery. The multi-layered stories are an escape into reality.
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Content
1. Book-Ins
2. Bookends
3. Smoke Signals
4. The Jayhawk
5. Prank Gone Wrong
6. Circles Upside Down
7. Wild Horse Adoption Program
8. Snow White
9. Bullying
10. Polyphemus
11. Sirens
12. Bullets
13. The Natural You
14. Good Cop, Bad Cop
15. Chinese to Go
16. The Ark
17. Flinthills Furies
18. Battle Buddies
19. Eight & Sand
20. Rhizomes
21. Bat-Shit Crazy
22. Social Media
23. The Ax
24. The Greys
25. Superheroes and Arch Villians
26. Rabbit Chief
27. Postpartum Depression and PTSD
28. Nothing But the Truth
29. Forget-Me-Nots
30. Moon Children
31. Brain Guppies
32. Pass the Relish
33. The Chief
34. Phoenix
Appendix: Photographs
