Book Synopsis
INTRODUCTION
DONALD and GLENDA, had the American dream, but it came at a high price, as their gifted and bright 17-year-old son's spirit had become so broken that the only peace he could find would come from thoughts of suicide. Donald’s namesake, or. . . "DONNY G” had lost his will to keep on going.
This is his story as recounted by his mother and father. These events did not take place in the Jim Crow South of the 30s and 40s, nor the turbulent civil rights era of the 50s and 60s. These events occurred in the affluent Cleveland suburb of East Lake in the past decade.
The Paradox…
After many years of hard work and determination, their persistence to get there family out of the ghetto was finally realized with the purchase of their Dream Home. In 1994, in an upscale Northern state, one would not believe that a real life “A Raisin in the Sun" could be lived out at this time, nor at this place . . . and yet it was.