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I'm Tanya Moseley.
We're going to listen back to an interview with Andre Debuse III about writing, growing up amidst violence and poverty with chronic pain and experiencing the divine.
He has a new collection of personal essays titled Ghost Dogs on Killers and Kin.
Terry spoke with him last year when he had just published the novel such kindness.
Here's Terry's introduction.
An accident that causes a severe injury and disability changes a life in an instant.
And the chronic pain can last for the rest of your life.
So how do you carry on?
Thats the central question in the new novel by my guest Andre Debuse III.
The main character, Tom, is a builder who falls off a roof, breaking his pelvis and hips.
Those bones are held together by pins, and long after the fall, the fires around the pins are still raging.
Hes on disability, living in section eight subsidized housing, thinking he doesnt belong here.