ABOUT THE BOOK

In his book 'In Search of Lost Time' Marcel Proust writes:

"A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the sequence of the hours, the order of the years and worlds. He consults them as he wakes and reads in them in a second the point on the earth he occupies, the time that has elapsed up to his waking; but their ranks can be mixed up, broken."

Ashes to Ascendency traces the volcanic eruption of a life forged in fire—a tapestry of memories, confessions, and revelations pulled from the scorched earth of lived experience. It chronicles the odyssey of a boy with cinnamon skin and questioning eyes who grows into a man stretched across three points on the map: the turquoise-ringed shores of Bermuda, the sun-bleached deserts of California, and the rain-misted streets of England. Through hurricanes both meteorological and emotional, this narrative stands as testament to the human spirit's stubborn refusal to remain buried beneath the ash of circumstance.

Life hurls at each one of us its unique preordained plan, but the best part of being human is that you can modify that plan to serve your best interest rather than lie prisoner to it. The main character in this book, David, was born into a dichotomous cruelty that gave him the outer shell of a white person born into a black family and from there the preordained plan of the universe threw at him some unique challenges that he had to learn to master and overcome in order to find peace in this lifetime.

We are all challenged by circumstances and choices, it is in the how we use them to create the life we desire that makes us great. Our lives can be anything we choose if we take the time to witness the direction we are going and thus augment the pieces that flow counter to our personal life plan. Read this book and see how David find his path, and remember that there is no time limit on how we can improve our circumstances.