The Russellite

At a very young age, a sickly, but gifted little boy is born into a world of abject poverty and religious zealotry. The story follows him through life as he pathetically tries to find out just how he's supposed to fit in-being raised in his inherited surroundings of door-to-door religious magazine sales, violence, and parental mental illness and brutality. Growing up in a life wrought with prodigious failure, he slowly begins to lose the ability to function in society in even the least normal capacity. Eventually, he finds himself struggling to survive in a self-generated world of...could it be madness...or reality?