FINDING FISH

By Antwone Fisher
HARPERTORCH, 
An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
2001
369 pages.
Reviewed by Matthew Ujah-Peter 
This is Antwone Fisher's own memoir. A gripping, inspiring and highly motivational true life story of of a man who was born in a prison by an inmate; grew up in a foster home as a ward of the state with no real love of a family or biological parent, facing all sorts of abuses Antwone went  through all kinds of abuses, endured the ugly realities of street life and the grim truths of the inner city life to carve a niche for himself in life.

This is the book that inspired the movie Finding Fish, starring Denzel Washington. This is what Denzel Washington Said about the book:
''Read a lot like a work of fiction, moving me alternatively to tears and joy, and making me forget at times that the story is , in fact, true".In Antwone's own words: ''The first thing you notice when you're homeless is how long the nights are. It's hard to realize that a night can be so long;... You don't really asleep, especially in the beginning, because you wake up every fifteen minutes worried someone will come upon you. Your imagination runs wild with what terrible things would happen if you fell asleep and let that happen. The world at night. The world at night when you're without shelter feels like the Twilight Zone, another dimension, another planet, where the normal laws of time and space don't apply. When the sun comes up, you're so happy knowing that soon people are going to out and you will be back in the world again, on Terra firm, although you're tired and worried about how fast night comes.

Before you know it, you're seeing shops close down, lights diminishing down the streets, cars becoming fewer and fewer; on residential block  you enviously watch working mothers and fathers pulling into driveways, arriving home to their families; and you stand outside talking in your head, saying, don't go inside yet, stay a little out a little longer!....