Jeffery Martin has been among one of my favorite poets, for many years now. He has always written with great sensibility and depth. 'Ripples, Shadows and Huddled Scraps, ' is Jeffery's first novel. It is raw, it is real; speaking from the voice of the inner child. This is a story about a life; it is profoundly moving and at times, I had to pause; internalizing the emotion of the passages, as I was reading. In Eastern cultures,...