Wake Me Up Before I Die: The Struggles of Johnny Lureaux to Find Purpose in a Lifetime Shadowed with Death. Based on True Events (Book I)

Wake Me Up Before I Die, is the first book in the Trilogy of the trials and tribulations of the Lureaux Family. Book I introduces Johnny Lureaux in the 1930’s as a young child in the south and the extraordinary circumstances he must face just to stay alive. Facing death as an Alabama illegitimate child, thru an early marriage and into the mind set of a sniper in the Korean Conflict, Johnny will ignore every chance he is given, in each life he is awarded, with repetitive bad choices. In Book I, the final roles of his 27 years of life, as a South-side Chicago bandit and a young father, will fall under the darkness of the deceitful life he has chosen. As the black bird sits besides him, death lingers in finality and Johnny must discover the answer to Death’s quest and must learn what he must do to evade its presence and to live.