Second Place Is the First Winner: A Memoir of Rejection and Resilience

For Robert, life has never been easy. Growing up, he faced many hardships. Raised by a drug-addicted mother, separated from his siblings and thrown in the foster care system at the age of seven, only to be introduced to abuse and crime that turns his world upside down in ways that he couldn't imagine. Full of anger and trying to escape from a troubled past, at the age of thirteen, Robert discovers that his mother was murdered by a drug dealer, which fuels his anger to go down a destructive ...