Mickey: Surviving Salvation

’Mickey: Surviving Salvation’ is the story of a boy shaped by abandonment and abuse, who returns to his estranged mother at age 12 and has to figure out how to survive in her new life. Based on the author’s real-life childhood, Mickey tries to find his place amidst poverty, suffering and religious self-righteousness in the 1950’ s. From Chicago to Mormon country in Ogden, Utah, where religious intolerance strikes deep, and finally to California, the honest and raw voice of young Mickey takes the reader on an emotional journey of adolescence, in which the determination to survive creates unlikely moments of hope and triumph. -Sequel to ’ Mickey: The Giveaway Boy’

Robert M. Shafer (1942-2020) is the author of Mickey: The Giveaway Boy. He grew up as a Chicago slum boy and abandoned child. Robert served 1960-64 in the US Navy and worked 35 years as a film/video editor in San Francisco. His childhood inspired much of his writing.