In Real Life Paperback – January 1, 2012

For anyone looking to rediscover and reflect on their childhood and adolescence in the 1950's and 60's, this narrative is for you. In Real Life might be a fictional family saga but the author, Bill Mann, writes the novel in such a way as to recount in the most vivid and memorable way the tapestry of little events in life that have a momentous and significant impact. The main character awakes from a coma at age four and is convinced that the Mom and Dad taking him home from the hospital, are not his real parents. Here one experiences the raw emotions and feelings of a child struggling to overcome a dysfunctional family characterized by parents desperately trying to cope with alcoholism and marital disharmony and yet are capable of truly heroic attempts to rally themselves and their extended family. The novel has many unexpected twists and turns while causing the reader to speculate whether the protagonist will have the will power to prevail over the multitude of obstacles thrown his way. Then again, In Real Life, isn't this everyone's story as well? Bill Mann writes the narrative in a compelling and page turning style that holds your interest from beginning to end.