Author: joeldhirst

Charles Agwok never asked to come into the world as a poor black African on the most terrible of continents. It seems especially unfair to him that it is a matter of chance whether he will sleep in a bed, find a job, marry, or die of hunger and disease. Yet although he never asked for his fate, now he must somehow find a way to survive it.As he embarks on a coming-of-age journey to find meaning … meaning within a world that only recognizes violence, Charles does his best to endure the horrifying conditions that he and the other…