CRIME SCENE

My Childhood Was a Crime Scene is a memoir of growing up in a world where yelling, violence, addiction, manipulation, secrets, and constantly reading the room all seemed normal, because they were all he knew.

But this isn’t only a story about what happened during childhood. It’s about what stayed afterward.

As he grows older, becomes a father, and begins looking at his childhood through a different lens, he realizes that many things he considered parts of his personality were actually shaped by years of survival. Independence. Distrust. Hyper-awareness. The need for control. The instinct to protect the people around him.

Eventually, becoming a father forces him to confront the past and decide what will, and will not, continue into the next generation. That means facing painful memories, setting boundaries, navigating family estrangement, and learning that surviving something and healing from it are two very different things.

At times painful, funny, uncomfortable, and deeply personal, My Childhood Was a Crime Scene is ultimately a story about family, trauma, fatherhood, healing, and breaking generational cycles.

My childhood was a crime scene, but was never my life sentence.