When he finally got placed in a wonderful home, he couldn't relax enough to enjoy it but he soon became a star player on the football team and became popular overnight. Demon ended up doing almost slave labor on a farm, working in a trash dump that fronted for a meth lab and trying to survive on his own despite the cruelness of the foster parents. Many of the foster parents were only concerned with getting a monthly check for being a foster parent and didn't care for the foster children. The author goes into great detail about the failings of the foster care system. After his mother dies of an overdose, he finds himself in foster care at 11 years old. He didn't have a lot of clothes and he was bullied at school but he had a strong sense for survival and did the best he could do. Sure he had to be a parent to his mom and make sure that she got to work each day but life was still fulfilling for him. As a kid, none of this really matters to him - he has friends and the great outdoors to explore. Born to a single teenage drug-addicted mother in a single-wide trailer he starts out with the cards stacked against him. This novel is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia and starts when Damon is born.
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