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Artist and writer James Randall Chumbley comes out of hiding after three years since his last bestseller with his most revealing book ever, Alabama Snow. The author has written a tender, heartbreaking story of how his beautiful mother, who grew up poor on a small cotton farm in rural Alabama watched her dreams slip away due to his father’s alcohol-infused abuse and violence he rained down on her and the three children she dearly loved.
Since the author was a boy, he tried to protect her from him as he spent years attempting to save his mother from the mental afflictions and resulting alcoholism his father triggered—turning her to the bottle when the shock treatments and ever-changing medications did very little to ease her emotional pain—like many, hoping to find it at the bottom.
James also shares his own struggles that surfaced some-two years after her passing which almost pushed him to suicide. Find out how a message of hope from his mother saved her beloved son from meeting the same end as his father. Anyone whose life has been touched by mental illness will find something worthwhile in this narrative. The author has opened a portion of his heart and soul in his sharing.
James Randall Chumbley’s, Before the Last Dance is a novel, but its subject mirrors life. Growing older in the gay community—for many men, as the author admits he’s one, is accompanied by a sense of uneasiness as the years collect. The culture is drowning itself in beauty and youth. If one is fortunate to be born with good looks, it’s only a matter of time before it’s taken from them. Such a reality is questioned in this book: Is it better to be born average rather than face watching the years take away that God-given gift of beauty?
But Before the Last Dance is more than a story about looking into the mirror. It unpeels Tom’s prejudices of certain members of the LGBT+ community; and overcoming them when he meets a teenage girl, Lee Ann who was born in the wrong body. It’s about privilege, choices, compromises, acceptance, and friendships.
This book addresses the struggles in finding ourselves and through others; and the process of shedding the body one was born in to become the person they are—who their brain is as well as their heart. It’s about finding love that once seemed an impossibility; and saying goodbye—leaving the dance floor before the glaring lights turn on at closing.
But Before the Last Dance is more than a story about looking into the mirror. It unpeels Tom’s prejudices of certain members of the LGBT+ community; and overcoming them when he meets a teenage girl, Lee Ann who was born in the wrong body. It’s about privilege, choices, compromises, acceptance, and friendships.
This book addresses the struggles in finding ourselves and through others; and the process of shedding the body one was born in to become the person they are—who their brain is as well as their heart. It’s about finding love that once seemed an impossibility; and saying goodbye—leaving the dance floor before the glaring lights turn on at closing.
A deeply passionate, sensitive and personal story of one man's journey through a painful childhood of abuse, alcoholism and suicide.
This book will touch all your emotions, from heartbreak to arousal, as you follow Randy's depiction of a troubled relationship with his father and its parallels to relationships with men in his life's search. A classic story that will move you. Gay or not, there is something in this book for many of us to take to heart.’
A deeply passionate, sensitive and personal story of one man's journey through a painful childhood of abuse, alcoholism and suicide.
This book will touch all your emotions, from heartbreak to arousal, as you follow Randy's depiction of a troubled relationship with his father and its parallels to relationships with men in his life's search. A classic story that will move you. Gay or not, there is something in this book for many of us to take to heart.’