After the Lights Go Out - John Vercher
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Narrator: Sean Crisden
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, Sport & Recreation
A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertainfrom the critically acclaimed author of Three-Fifths, Xavier Scarecrow Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementiaa struggle he can no longer deny. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to keep in shape while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension., Until then, he watches his diet and trains every day at the Philadelphia gym owned by his cousin-cum-manager, Shot, a retired champion boxer to whom Xavier owes an unpayable debt. Xavier makes ends meet by teaching youth classes at Shots gym and by living rent-free in the house of his white father, whom Xavier has been forced to commit to a nursing home because of the
