A review by adam613
Abundance by Jakob Guanzon

4.0

"All he wants is to be like any of these people, these Americans doing the best they can with the itty-bitty they got, one day and purchase at a time."

Abundance is filled with beyond gut punch and heart crushing reality. Jakob Guanzon holds nothing back in this poetically written story and using his cleverly descriptive writing style, he cuts to the heart of the reality for millions of Americans struggling to play catch up and getting caught up in debt, crime, addiction and abuse. While fighting tooth and nail to barely get by, the protagonist Henry faces the harsh realities of a life where his only abundance are his encounters his family and society at large where every decision is life or death and made in primal desperation. These kinds of distressed actions lead to some grave consequences. Henry is a man who must face his past without the privilege of having resources to help him while getting caught up in the same old cycle of poverty over and over again. This book is unrestrained truth and tragic all wrapped in alluring prose. Abundance by Jakob Guanzon is a heavy dose of poetic truth that may be hard to swallow but will be more than worth guanzon.