Reflections

Life is a journey. In this case, the story of a special boy, Little Bill, who is born in the poverty of a small Kentucky coal-mining town. His father is murdered, and his mother remarries trying to hold on to her two daughters and young son, Little Bill, who feels he is being ostracized by the poverty they live in. His decision to leave his family and travel to the West Coast prompts a companion who likewise is forced to make a similar decision based on the death of his father due to consumption.

In his travels, Little Bill is brilliant in his thinking, as observed by his hometown friend and cotraveler. Little Bill's power to observe and produce positive, lifesaving results is repeatedly manifested in the numerous confrontations recorded. In all, it's those who see him as needing help that help him to overcome health problems, marriage, fatherhood, poverty, and his ultimate death, as manifested in this life-journey story.

The reader will be fascinated with the skills exhibited by this one small boy.