Bøger af Neal Wooten

Tomorrowscape stories are postcards from our future. End Z.O.N.E. serves as the writing on the (invisible) wall about where we're heading as a society. Four college friends create the invention of a lifetime, which leads to a lifetime of pain, survival, war, and love. Endeavoring to be the Neil Armstrong of time travel, Bronson Peek, ex-quarterback, volunteers to test their time-travel device as he and college pal, Marty Liberman, an engineering major, take a leap of faith to steal a glimpse of the future. They discover both a utopian paradise and dystopian wasteland where the divide between the rich and poor has culminated into a nightmarish reality. As the poor scavenge for food and die of malnutrition and lack of medical care, the obscenely wealthy, entitled and unsympathetic, have retreated to luxurious technological metropolises. Protected behind invisible barriers, these menacing municipalities known as Z.O.N.E.s are the ultimate gated communities. A calculation error keeps Bronson from returning to his time and to his true love, Mitzy Reynolds. Emotionally crushed by the turn of events, and at the same time appalled by the lack of humanity in this melancholic future, he cannot stand idly by. Back in the present, Mitzy, a petite redheaded math geek, is also suffering from a broken heart and will risk everything to go after him. But will she find him...in time?

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wootentraces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce.Neal Wooten grew up in a tiny community atop Sand Mountain, Alabama, where everyone was white and everyone was poor. Prohibition was still embraced. If you wanted alcohol, you had to drive to Georgia or ask the bootlegger sitting next to you in church. Tent revivals, snake handlers, and sacred harp music were the norm, and everyone was welcome as long as you weren't Black, brown, gay, atheist, Muslim, a damn Yankee, or a Tennessee Vol fan. The Wootens lived a secret existence in a shack in the woods with no running water, no insulation, and almost no electricity. Even the school bus and mail carrier wouldn't go there. Neal's family could hide where they were, but not what they were. They were poor white trash. Cops could see it. Teachers could see it. Everyone could see it. Growing up, Neal was weaned on folklore legends of his grandfatherhis quick wit, quick feet, and quick temper. He discovers how this volatile disposition led to a murder, a conviction, and ultimately to a daring prison escape and a closely guarded family secret. Being followed by a black car with men in black suits was as normal to Neal as using an outhouse, carrying drinking water from a stream, and doing homework by the light of a kerosene lamp. And Neal's father, having inherited the very same traits of his father, made sure the frigid mountain winters weren't the most brutal thing his family faced. Told from two perspectives, this story alternates between Neal's life and his grandfather's, culminating in a shocking revelation. Take a journey to the Deep South and learn what it's like to be born on the wrong side of the tracks, the wrong side of the law, and the wrong side of a violent mental illness.