Climbing a Burning Rope: Memoir of an Abandoned Child
It was nighttime as I drove my mom's stolen Volare wagon down the 405 freeway. It was 1978 and my friends and I were on a drug run. We were tripping on LSD which made the freeway seem like a ribbon in the wind. Russell lit a doobie that smelled like sugary skunk and a YES song blasted from the radio.
"Climbing a Burning Rope is a beautifully crafted tour de force written in a visceral uninhibited style that will transform the reader just as the abandoned child became a resurrected man."
Johnson's riveting story of a boy who moved into a California cult called Synanon at eight years old that separated children from their parents is frank and harrowing. He was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused for five years. Within a year of being expelled from the cult against his brainwashed will he was addicted to drugs and alcohol. He became a teen runaway in South Central Los Angeles where he turned to crime to survive.
His tale is one of suicidal depression, decades of dysfunction and redemption wherein he managed to survive against all odds overcoming addiction, OCD and PTSD through faith. With wonderfully crafted dialog and vivid imagery Johnson captures the essence of children lost in the turmoil of the baby boomer generation.
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