Runaway, Shame: A Memoir

For most of the life of Joseph Gutierrez, an unimaginable war lives within, a war that never sleeps, never rests. Beginning in childhood, living under the rulership of a harsh, uncaring, grandfather who forced his bigoted, foul mouthed and vulgar persona each day growing up with his mother and sister. Naturally a shy child, growing up in fear, developing a low sense of self, into adolescence and adulthood as the low esteem manifested into the beast it is today, Toxic Shame. Living with sham...