Waking Up: A Kid Grows in Brooklyn

by Paul A. Volk

What happens when a high school English teacher asks a fifteen year old kid still concerned with acne and how his hair looks to read a French philosopher's essay about the absurdity of life and the inescapable quest for meaning?This is a book for anyone who has ever been a kid, who ever felt alone in the midst of family and peers and a world that seemed not his own...for anyone who has felt the pain of becoming conscious and the great joy of waking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147913872X
• ISBN13: 9781479138722
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"