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.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/
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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