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Wilmington, MA - The New Words Press division of New Voices Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Reaching Home by Ron Breazeale. The political-psychological thriller, which takes place in the not-so-distant future, is a provocative look at how our childhood experiences mold our character and shape our responses when confronted with a struggle to survive.

The story centers around Dr. Lee Brazil, a "southern refuge." Brazil has never made peace with the South he grew up in as a child born without a left hand; or with the prosthetic hook he wears; or with the nuclear industry he blames for his disability. While researching material for his book, Ten Years in the Not-So-New South, in the "Atomic City," Pine Grove, Tennessee, Lee attends a SOMOP meeting-Save Our Mountain and Our People-an activist group working to shut down the Pine Grove Labs incinerator for nuclear waste. When an explosion at the Labs occurs, Lee is caught up in the ensuing disaster and implicated in what is mistakenly believed to be a terrorist plot.

Managing to escape local authorities, his harrowing journey back home to Maine forces him to seek refuge in a number of unlikely places and solicit help from a number of unlikely allies, including Jean Kudrick, the lost love of his youth. Now on the radar of federal agents tracking a terrorist cell in Boston, Lee is arrested before he reaches home. He is offered a deal: help the FBI foil a terrorist plot and avoid prosecution.

In confronting the politics of fear, Lee must challenge his perception of good and evil and struggle with the disabling inner conflicts of his disability to determine his course in reaching home.

The book's author, Dr. Ron Breazeale, is a clinical psychologist with over thirty years of experience in the field of mental health and drug and alcohol treatment. Having grown up in the South as a child with a disability, he has lived much of the book. Born with a birth defect in the "Atomic City," Oak Ridge, Tennessee where his parents lived and worked, he has worn a prosthetic hook most of his life.

Dr. Breazeale returned to the "New South" for ten years to work as a psychologist. He has focused much of his clinical practice and his writing on persons with a disability and their families.

Reaching Home by Ron Breazeale, New Words Press, a division of New Voices Publishing, Wilmington, MA. Price: $16.95. New Voices Publishing is a division of KidsTerrain, Inc. To order visit www.KidsTerrain.com. For book signings and speaking engagements, contact Ron Breazeale at bookings@reachinghome.com