Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love

by Zack McDermott

It was easier to chip away at what was left of me than to try to recover the self I’d lost.

Magically, on his eighteenth birthday, he transitioned from wayward youth to evil man. So we slapped him with 2,190 days in federal prison instead of probation and an expungement. Bobby became the one in four: a black male in America who’d spent some time in prison.

What do you even call depression in a refugee camp?