Twice Over a Man: A Fierce Memoir of an Orphan Boy Who Doggedly Determined a Finer Life 4th Order turns a domestic tragedy into

turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander

"--Elizabeth Hinton

she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss

In this seminal book

one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year

Twice Over a Man: A Fierce Memoir of an Orphan Boy Who Doggedly Determined a Finer Life 4th Order turns a domestic tragedy intoBorn in East Saint Louis to a drug addicted mother who died when he was eight years old, author Orvin Kimbrough chronicles his early years through foster care, orphanages, physical and sexual abuse, hunger, and poverty. He could have joined a gang. He could have become a teen father. He could have fallen into drugs and the violence of the streets. He could have ended up in prison. He could have been shot dead. But he rose above it all to become a