John DEATON\'S RAW AND COMPELLING Memoir From brass knuckle beatdowns on the schoolyard to showdowns with the SEC on the national news, every second of Deaton\'s life has been a fight for survival.
In a time of uncertainty and economic instability, Deaton\'s story is one of perseverance, resilience and empowerment..
Food Stamp Warrior is written with the depth of setting found in Hillbilly Elegy and the razor-sharp, unpretentious voice of Bourdain\'s Kitchen Confidential.
We make our own fate.
Our birth is not our fate.
This Memoir is Deaton\'s confession, his exorcism, his proclamation to fellow survivors: Don\'t give up.
He became a marine, an attorney, a millionaire, a father - but the unexamined trauma from his past haunted and nearly broke him.
Deaton\'s escape would take him to law school, where he starved and battled cancer, while his peers lived off privilege.
Deep down however, all he wanted was to escape.
Born in one of the worst neighborhoods in Detroit - the kind of place the city cordoned off with warning signs and growing up surrounded by hustlers, addicts, abusers, gang bangers, and the downtrodden, Deaton became a fighter, with violence becoming second nature.
This book is the raw, wild John Deaton story, straight from the source.
John DEATON\'S RAW AND COMPELLING Memoir From brass knuckle beatdowns on the schoolyard to showdowns with the SEC on the national news, every second of Deaton\'s life has been a fight for survival
