The Minnesota Maniac - Paperback

An inspirational story of one young man as he navigates through life, carrying a dark traumatic secret from his childhood that pushes him to look for ways of escaping reality and the terrifying memories that he has kept secret for over 20 years. As he finds drugs and alcohol, and uses them as ways to escape his reality and his silence. His talent working with horses becomes a great way for him to hide his pain behind his abilities, going through life, feeling silent and alone. As his journey goes on, he starts making more mistakes and creating more problems than he can deal with which lead him on a chain of events of wild and stupid crimes which end up giving him consequences that send him to the Minnesota state prison system. Which then offer him only two choices, either become a better criminal, or face his dark memories and work on himself. Both choices offer a long and difficult journey, will he choose to retaliate against the world or learn to love himself?