Beyond the Shadows of the Cane River
By Jesse D. Poole
This isn't a memoir.
It's a goddamn reckoning.
A middle finger to every rule, every expectation, and every tired-ass blueprint for how life's supposed to go.
Jesse D. Poole came into this world the way he lived in it-from the center of a storm. A tornado tore through Natchitoches, Louisiana, the day he came home from the hospital. Welcome to the world, kid. Now fight your way through it.
And fight he did.
Set in a town where history hangs like fog and nothing moves unless you push it, Beyond the Shadows of the Cane Riveris a raw, unfiltered ride through the backroads of broken systems, backhanded teachers, and backwoods rebellion.
Jesse never fit in-so he stopped trying.
School? A joke.
Authority? A dare.
Survival? Something he learned one shutter click at a time.
The first camera was a cheap-ass Kodak. It didn't take great pictures-but it gave him something better: proof he was here.
This book isn't for everyone.
It's for the ones who've had to fight to breathe. The ones who've been underestimated, overlooked, and left behind. The ones chasing something bigger than the place that tried to bury them.If you want the polished version, go read someone else's bullshit.
If you want the truth-the bruises, the fire, the nights spent wondering if it's all worth it-
...turn the fucking page.