Hotman's Innocence

News release for HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE by Peter S. Hotman

New author, Peter S. Hotman presents his first book, HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE, a family saga/memoir. The message is NEVER BE SILENT about abuse. Tell immediately, and tell the truth. The shame ALWAYS belongs to the perpetrator! Silence of victims empowers the abusers to violate the innocent again, or find new prey. This book is based on actual event, spanning one hundred years, through three family generations. The author takes the reader on an emotional roller-coaster ride as the drama unfolds in the lives of the characters. For a moment the reader wants to rescue certain individuals, and then the next moment one wants to strangle the same. Angels and devils, saints and sinners a combination of personality traits, good and evil are in these poor, good-hearted but flawed Ozarks' characters. A little goodness mixed with wickedness in these people making for realistic human beings. The beginning is loaded with details about a land and people of extremes. The impoverished, backward Ozarks culture during the 1950's and 60's has the reader stepping into a third world country smack in the middle of heartland USA.

Here's a survivors' story based on actual events in the lives of three family generations, spanning one hundred years. This gut wrenching family saga, and explosive memoir addresses many universal and American social issues present during the past century. HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE is told in part through the eyes of a child. Laced with natural sarcasms, humor, and realistic dialogue. Composition of this book makes for a pleasurable adventure in reading.

The author has taken a few artistic liberties and plays with view point but the broken literary rule works for this story. LITTLE HOUSE and Mark Twain meets Louise Erdrich is how HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE has best been described. Divided into two sections, Section One begins with the author's ancestors' legacy and how their lives will eventually touch his.. The story of his grandparents homesteading during the early 1900's, and raising nine children. The author focuses on the oldest daughter Delena and the youngest sibling Enoch born twenty years later. Delena survives rape. Enoch suffers brain damage. He marries thirteen-year-old Ora during the 1950's. Enoch and Ora have children. Their first born is the author, Peter Saul and then his sister Jane. Section two begins at Peter Saul's birth, "Saul's Memoir." Ora has an affair with Enoch's best friend Merl Judas. The family is destroyed. Saul and Jane struggle to survive while enduring mental, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their mother's lover Merl Judas. Eventually they are abandoned and are passed from one home to another, thirteen in all. This book was final closure for the author's traumatized childhood. A message of hope that one can overcome cycles of abuse and take back his own life. A survivor's story of hope based on actual events.

Today Peter S. Hotman lives in Arkansas. He teaches independent living skills to the disabled. He and his wife have helped to raise thirty-eight foster children.

Gary Morgan director of Ozarks Counseling Services said," HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE is a must read for all parents who love their children and want to protect them."

Kayte Vincent an Arkansas county director with Children and Family services said, HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE is exhilarating, and motivating. Rendering the heart to do one's best for the less fortunate, young, old, able and disabled."

HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE is a powerful, moving story about survivors overcoming abuse, finding hope in the midst of desperation, and with God's help forcefully taking back their own lives.

Kathy Bengnson, book reviewer and enterprising business woman said, " WOW! One can't put it down! Exciting from beginning to finish. Definitely a best seller. "

HOTMAN'S INNOCENCE by Peter S. Hotman , in books store every where. To find out more go to Petmegoose Press Publishing. www.petmegoosepress.net