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Filed under: Biographies, C, Swedish
Ge aldrig upp
by Michael Alonzo
Swedish
239 pages
Frank förlag
ISBN: 978-91-858565-00-0
First line: Jag sprang in på apoteket.
Back cover blurb:
I Ge aldrig upp berättar Michael Alonzo, den förre sÃ¥ngaren i kultpunkbandet KSMB samt Stockholms negrer, sin egen historia. Det är berättelsen om hur han lever med en kvinna som utÃ¥t sätt är kärleksfull och god, men som inom hemmets väggar snart visar sig vara en djävul — en kvinna som slÃ¥r och misshandlar sin man. När hon senare väntar parets barn bestämmer hon sig dessutom för att hon inte vill ha Michael som far, varpÃ¥ hon kidnappar pojken och försvinner.Naket och självutlämnade berättar Michael Alonzo om hur han av sonens mamma blir frÃ¥ntagen rätten att träffa sin son. Och vi fÃ¥r därefter följa den svÃ¥ra kampen för att fÃ¥ honom Ã¥ter.
Thoughts: This book is interesting in that it tells the tale of a man who was physically and verbally abused by his wife. It’s not often you hear stories like that, and some people even refuse to believe that such cases exist. Alonzo, whose tale it is, really had to struggle, not only with having been abused and had his son stolen away, but with not being believed and almost being ridiculed for what he had experienced.
At some points during the book, I was almost boiling with rage, because it was all so completely unfair. If you are a man, and you are a father, and you’ve fallen out with the mother of your child(ren), it’s almost impossible to win back your rights to spend time with your child.
The book could have been better, but it still earns itself a C.