Aquamarine Blues

Do you know what it's like to have never had a friend during the first twenty years of your life? Have you ever experienced abject fear under constant judgement by an unseen force - greater than Big brother - that's committed to doing you in? This Memoir lays bare one surreal journey towards, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and liberation. Born into a religious cult in the mid 50's to parents bent on saving the Bahamian population from destruction in Armageddon in 1975, Gerald Brown faces a world full of hypocrisy and fear. On his way up the organisation's career ladder, his father (later to become a Jehovah's Witnesses District Overseer for fifteen years) could not allow his sons any potentially distracting activities such as play time or friendships; because time is running out on the world and honest-hearted people have to be saved through the preaching activity: field service. By seven years of age, Gerald's permanently scarred constitution resembles that of a thanksgiving turkey stuffed to the hilt with scriptures, waiting to explode. But how can a critically thinking child possibly fit into all this? In search of truth beyond the one his parents are teaching, he ends up homeless in the streets of Nassau at the age of thirteen, catching some more hell in paradise...