Fredy Espinoza

Requiem a Memoir of Sex, Madness, and Self-destruction Fredy Espinoza

REQUIEM is a true autobiography of a young man who grows up with a paranoid schizophrenic mother who believes the devil desires her children's souls.  Immediately opening up with an exorcism, you witness the dark world of a sixteen year old boy as he struggles to deal with horrifying acts of physical and sexual abuse, familial violence, self-destructive choices, murder attempts, and rape well into his young adulthood.  Against all odds, the protagonist perseveres and chooses to reveal all his family's darkest secrets, as well as his own.