http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/
In 1962, six year old John Tuohy,
his two brothers and two sisters entered Connecticut’s foster care system and
were promptly split apart. Over the next ten years, John would live in more
than ten foster homes, group homes and state schools, from his native Waterbury
to Ansonia, New Haven, West Haven, Deep River and Hartford. In the end, a
decade later, the state returned him to the same home and the same parents they
had taken him from. As tragic as is funny compelling story will make you cry
and laugh as you journey with this child to overcome the obstacles of the
foster care system and find his dreams.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John William Tuohy is a writer
who lives in Washington DC. He holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood
University. He is the author of numerous non-fiction on the history of
organized crime including the ground break biography of bootlegger Roger Tuohy
"When Capone's Mob Murdered Touhy" and "Guns and Glamour: A
History of Organized Crime in Chicago."
His non-fiction crime short
stories have appeared in The New Criminologist, American Mafia and other
publications. John won the City of Chicago's Celtic Playfest for his work The
Hannigan's of Beverly, and his short story fiction work, Karma Finds Franny
Glass, appeared in AdmitTwo Magazine in October of 2008.
His play, Cyberdate.Com, was
chosen for a public performance at the Actors Chapel in Manhattan in February
of 2007 as part of the groups Reading Series for New York project. In June of
2008, the play won the Virginia Theater of The First Amendment Award for best
new play.
Contact John:
MYWRITERSSITE.BLOGSPOT.COM
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
From Professor William Anthony
Connolly
This incredible memoir, No Time
to Say Goodbye, tells of entertaining angels, dancing with devils, and of the
abandoned children many viewed simply as raining manna from some lesser god.
The young and unfortunate lives
of the Tuohy bruins—sometimes Irish, sometimes Jewish, often Catholic,
rambunctious, but all imbued with Lion’s hearts— is told here with brutal
honesty leavened with humor and laudable introspective forgiveness.
The memoir will have you falling
to your knees thanking that benevolent Irish cop in the sky, your lucky stars,
or hugging the oxygen out of your own kids the fate foisted upon Johnny and his
siblings does not and did not befall your own brood.
John William Tuohy, a nationally-recognized
authority on organized crime and Irish levity, is your trusted guide through
the weeds the decades of neglect ensnared he and his brothers and sisters, all
suffering for the impersonal and often mercenary taint of the foster care
system.
Theirs, and Tuohy’s, story is not
at all figures of speech as this review might suggest, but all too real and all
too sad, and maddening. I wanted to scream. I wanted to get into a time
machine, go back and adopt every last one of them. I was angry. I was
captivated.
The requisite damning verities of
foster care are all here, regretfully, but what sets this story above others is
its beating heart, even a bruised and broken one, still willing to forgive and
understand, and continue to aid its walking wounded. I cannot recommend this
book enough