Will to Survive: Fear God and Keep Your Bowels Clear

In 1963, eight-year-old William Greene shares a cramped Victory home with his parents, a Canadian Second World War veteran and his British war bride, and four siblings in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario. Grandpa Ernie's sudden arrival influences William's life in ways he will not begin to understand until decades later.By 1989, Will is a husband and father whose days appear firmly anchored in the present. But when vivid, unsettling episodes begin pulling him back in time, the boundaries between memory and reality start to collapse. As past and present collide, Will must uncover the truth of what began all those years ago before the life he has built is undone from within.Set against a country coming of age, Will to Survive: Fear God and Keep Your Bowels Clear is a historically resonant, time-bending novel about family, identity and the past that refuses to stay buried.