Infinite Ripples: Skeletons Beyond The Grave

There's a sudden and horrifying awakening -Joe's becoming just like his abusive father- The realization is devastating. Joe can't allow it to happen. So, he takes a vow, a seemingly simple vow, to be a better person. Unfortunately, the pendulum swings and his vow morphs into a compulsive disorder that distorts his destiny and destroys his family. Joe's daughter is barely fourteen when his compassion to help a troubled youth triggers a thirty-year old curse of rape to exact its dreadful toll on his innocent daughter. Joe began writing his memoir in 1993 to better understand a complex marital relationship and to repair bridges destroyed since childhood. Without his memoir, his mom would have taken her horrific secrets to her grave-secrets of child molestation, mob connections, repeated abortions, and murder. Two-weeks before succumbing to cancer in 1999, Joe's mom expressed her conviction that his father had murdered fifteen-year-old Judith Mae Andersen. Judith's dismembered body had been discovered floating in an oil drum in Chicago's Montrose Harbor on August 22, 1957. For eighteen long years, Joe agonizes over his knowledge of the crime and the compelling need to go public. This is a true story of survival-survival despite extreme abuse, learning disabilities, compulsive disorders, and the traumas faced from infinite ripples haunting him from beyond the grave.

Author: Joseph Summerville

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Mar 13, 2018

Number of Pages: 315 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1533608016

ISBN-13: 9781533608017