LOOKING BACK
The most devastating blow any woman can suffer is to lose a child. How the loss occurs rarely makes a difference to the depths of unbearable grief to which mothers can sink, many even to the point of considering suicide.
This author lost her only son when he was only 24 years old. He was murdered when a vicious killer fired one bullet into his heart. This happened twenty years ago, but in her book "Looking Back," Williams admits that it took her many years before she could even talk about the event without breaking down totally. In the chapter entitled "To Hell and Back" she says in part "The worse part was the sleepless nights though, especially when I teetered on the verge of suicide. There was also the inability to eat for weeks on end as not only had my sense of taste gone, but it was as if no stomach existed at all. That is when I went through every event of my life trying to understand why such a terrible thing had happened to me, for I did think I was a good person and terrible tragedies should never happen to good people!"
This strong lady was however able to recover and survive to say years later that she is now one of the happiest persons in the world! Certainly not because her son was murdered as she quotes the late Rose Kennedy; "It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time -the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone" but because, "I have come to realize that your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
This narrative by Williams takes readers through a roller coaster of various emotions including those which she had to confront when she looked back a few years ago and realized that all the evidence pointed to the possibility that her only son was murdered, not by a "criminal" but by someone in the Jamaican police force in the country in which she still partly resides and where the police are sworn to "To serve and protect".
Looking Back is the powerful mini autobiography of a strong black woman who was not only forced to confront devastating personal tragedy but also had to spend many years struggling to preserve her freedoms as during the cold war era, there was real danger that her country could have been swallowed up by communists working under the direction of the Cuban DGI and Russian KGB. During that period too, Williams and her entire family faced grave dangers forcing her to have to temporarily send her children away, as she was determined that the communist threat which not only brought in its wake, many mass murders, numerous state organised massacres and even treason by a member of the then government which was at the time under the tutelage of foreign communist agencies, should not succeed in depriving her and her people of their freedoms.
At this time when the USA has normalized relations with the Cubans, Williams who visited that island five times up to 2014 as she has relatives there, still remains sympathetic to the Cuban people who she says are deprived, browbeaten and hopeless, writing "And I am not talking about only the lack of freedoms but also the system makes it impossible for people to advance economically no matter how hard they work. So poverty is pervasive while corruption and prostitution is rampant as people turn to any means necessary to survive."
In other chapters she also gives her views on religion, saying why organised religion is not for her, racism which surprisingly she has fallen victim to in her own country which has a black majority but not in the "white world" to which she has traveled extensively and ends with her amusing experiences with marijuana which has just been decriminalized in Jamaica.
This is definitely a timely book not only for women but also persons interested in history, politics, sociology and personal triumphs.
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This author lost her only son when he was only 24 years old. He was murdered when a vicious killer fired one bullet into his heart. This happened twenty years ago, but in her book "Looking Back," Williams admits that it took her many years before she could even talk about the event without breaking down totally. In the chapter entitled "To Hell and Back" she says in part "The worse part was the sleepless nights though, especially when I teetered on the verge of suicide. There was also the inability to eat for weeks on end as not only had my sense of taste gone, but it was as if no stomach existed at all. That is when I went through every event of my life trying to understand why such a terrible thing had happened to me, for I did think I was a good person and terrible tragedies should never happen to good people!"
This strong lady was however able to recover and survive to say years later that she is now one of the happiest persons in the world! Certainly not because her son was murdered as she quotes the late Rose Kennedy; "It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time -the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone" but because, "I have come to realize that your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
This narrative by Williams takes readers through a roller coaster of various emotions including those which she had to confront when she looked back a few years ago and realized that all the evidence pointed to the possibility that her only son was murdered, not by a "criminal" but by someone in the Jamaican police force in the country in which she still partly resides and where the police are sworn to "To serve and protect".
Looking Back is the powerful mini autobiography of a strong black woman who was not only forced to confront devastating personal tragedy but also had to spend many years struggling to preserve her freedoms as during the cold war era, there was real danger that her country could have been swallowed up by communists working under the direction of the Cuban DGI and Russian KGB. During that period too, Williams and her entire family faced grave dangers forcing her to have to temporarily send her children away, as she was determined that the communist threat which not only brought in its wake, many mass murders, numerous state organised massacres and even treason by a member of the then government which was at the time under the tutelage of foreign communist agencies, should not succeed in depriving her and her people of their freedoms.
At this time when the USA has normalized relations with the Cubans, Williams who visited that island five times up to 2014 as she has relatives there, still remains sympathetic to the Cuban people who she says are deprived, browbeaten and hopeless, writing "And I am not talking about only the lack of freedoms but also the system makes it impossible for people to advance economically no matter how hard they work. So poverty is pervasive while corruption and prostitution is rampant as people turn to any means necessary to survive."
In other chapters she also gives her views on religion, saying why organised religion is not for her, racism which surprisingly she has fallen victim to in her own country which has a black majority but not in the "white world" to which she has traveled extensively and ends with her amusing experiences with marijuana which has just been decriminalized in Jamaica.
This is definitely a timely book not only for women but also persons interested in history, politics, sociology and personal triumphs.
LOOKING BACK
The most devastating blow any woman can suffer is to lose a child. How the loss occurs rarely makes a difference to the depths of unbearable grief to which mothers can sink, many even to the point of considering suicide.
This author lost her only son when he was only 24 years old. He was murdered when a vicious killer fired one bullet into his heart. This happened twenty years ago, but in her book "Looking Back," Williams admits that it took her many years before she could even talk about the event without breaking down totally. In the chapter entitled "To Hell and Back" she says in part "The worse part was the sleepless nights though, especially when I teetered on the verge of suicide. There was also the inability to eat for weeks on end as not only had my sense of taste gone, but it was as if no stomach existed at all. That is when I went through every event of my life trying to understand why such a terrible thing had happened to me, for I did think I was a good person and terrible tragedies should never happen to good people!"
This strong lady was however able to recover and survive to say years later that she is now one of the happiest persons in the world! Certainly not because her son was murdered as she quotes the late Rose Kennedy; "It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time -the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone" but because, "I have come to realize that your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
This narrative by Williams takes readers through a roller coaster of various emotions including those which she had to confront when she looked back a few years ago and realized that all the evidence pointed to the possibility that her only son was murdered, not by a "criminal" but by someone in the Jamaican police force in the country in which she still partly resides and where the police are sworn to "To serve and protect".
Looking Back is the powerful mini autobiography of a strong black woman who was not only forced to confront devastating personal tragedy but also had to spend many years struggling to preserve her freedoms as during the cold war era, there was real danger that her country could have been swallowed up by communists working under the direction of the Cuban DGI and Russian KGB. During that period too, Williams and her entire family faced grave dangers forcing her to have to temporarily send her children away, as she was determined that the communist threat which not only brought in its wake, many mass murders, numerous state organised massacres and even treason by a member of the then government which was at the time under the tutelage of foreign communist agencies, should not succeed in depriving her and her people of their freedoms.
At this time when the USA has normalized relations with the Cubans, Williams who visited that island five times up to 2014 as she has relatives there, still remains sympathetic to the Cuban people who she says are deprived, browbeaten and hopeless, writing "And I am not talking about only the lack of freedoms but also the system makes it impossible for people to advance economically no matter how hard they work. So poverty is pervasive while corruption and prostitution is rampant as people turn to any means necessary to survive."
In other chapters she also gives her views on religion, saying why organised religion is not for her, racism which surprisingly she has fallen victim to in her own country which has a black majority but not in the "white world" to which she has traveled extensively and ends with her amusing experiences with marijuana which has just been decriminalized in Jamaica.
This is definitely a timely book not only for women but also persons interested in history, politics, sociology and personal triumphs.
This author lost her only son when he was only 24 years old. He was murdered when a vicious killer fired one bullet into his heart. This happened twenty years ago, but in her book "Looking Back," Williams admits that it took her many years before she could even talk about the event without breaking down totally. In the chapter entitled "To Hell and Back" she says in part "The worse part was the sleepless nights though, especially when I teetered on the verge of suicide. There was also the inability to eat for weeks on end as not only had my sense of taste gone, but it was as if no stomach existed at all. That is when I went through every event of my life trying to understand why such a terrible thing had happened to me, for I did think I was a good person and terrible tragedies should never happen to good people!"
This strong lady was however able to recover and survive to say years later that she is now one of the happiest persons in the world! Certainly not because her son was murdered as she quotes the late Rose Kennedy; "It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time -the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone" but because, "I have come to realize that your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
This narrative by Williams takes readers through a roller coaster of various emotions including those which she had to confront when she looked back a few years ago and realized that all the evidence pointed to the possibility that her only son was murdered, not by a "criminal" but by someone in the Jamaican police force in the country in which she still partly resides and where the police are sworn to "To serve and protect".
Looking Back is the powerful mini autobiography of a strong black woman who was not only forced to confront devastating personal tragedy but also had to spend many years struggling to preserve her freedoms as during the cold war era, there was real danger that her country could have been swallowed up by communists working under the direction of the Cuban DGI and Russian KGB. During that period too, Williams and her entire family faced grave dangers forcing her to have to temporarily send her children away, as she was determined that the communist threat which not only brought in its wake, many mass murders, numerous state organised massacres and even treason by a member of the then government which was at the time under the tutelage of foreign communist agencies, should not succeed in depriving her and her people of their freedoms.
At this time when the USA has normalized relations with the Cubans, Williams who visited that island five times up to 2014 as she has relatives there, still remains sympathetic to the Cuban people who she says are deprived, browbeaten and hopeless, writing "And I am not talking about only the lack of freedoms but also the system makes it impossible for people to advance economically no matter how hard they work. So poverty is pervasive while corruption and prostitution is rampant as people turn to any means necessary to survive."
In other chapters she also gives her views on religion, saying why organised religion is not for her, racism which surprisingly she has fallen victim to in her own country which has a black majority but not in the "white world" to which she has traveled extensively and ends with her amusing experiences with marijuana which has just been decriminalized in Jamaica.
This is definitely a timely book not only for women but also persons interested in history, politics, sociology and personal triumphs.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940158050169 |
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| Publisher: | Yard Publications |
| Publication date: | 01/21/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 332 |
| File size: | 631 KB |
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