Fill Me Up to Empty
Luleen S. Anderson
language
(AmErica House, Dec. 7, 2017)
The snapshot clipped to the record which Amanda Adams sat studying showed a blond twelve-year-old boy slightly above average size for his age. Aside from a rather out-of-touch look on his face, Josh Fields' picture gave little support to the clinical description, which she found herself reviewing with interest and concern.The record, several inches thick, included reports from schools, pediatricians, and mental health practitioners from several mid-western states. Each report was filled with data confirming a child in serious trouble.Fill Me Up To Empty is the true story of a severely disturbed child's struggle to understand his chaotic life and to make a place for himself in a world which for him was both frightening and undecipherable.The story of Joshua's successful struggle to define himself as a real person, capable of loving and of being loved, is told here as testimony to one young man's heroic efforts to rid himself of madness.