The Son Can Dream

Mike Cruz is the narrator in a young man's journey into the hell within himself. In this memoir that reads like narrative poetry, we are taken to a café and introduced to our narrator, who is pondering his life and struggling to understand how he arrived at this place. We learn about his perfect family, his perfect life, and how quickly everything turned with the divorce of his parents. From this painful, life-altering point, our narrator loses faith and direction in both family and God (his family's means of support), as well as in a hero of grunge to come who points out what grim future could lie ahead. From the first line to the finale, the reader is carried along by the voice of a young man searching for closure to the darkest chapters of his life. In this search, he is too often forced to confront the demons of insecurity, abandonment, and fear - the fear of losing the things that hold dear to him. In The Son Can Dream, author Cruz teaches us about hope and love, and the power of trusting those who love us.