Raising Sons Alone

Raising Sons Alone follows a woman who moves through Kingston and Chicago with a steady voice and a guarded heart while the world studies her son through a narrow lens. Each chapter exposes the pressure she carries in silence, from schoolrooms that judge her before she speaks to neighborhoods where boys become targets by association, not action. Told in sharp first person, the story reveals the hidden systems, quiet fears, and hard decisions that shape her every step as she fights to protect her son’s softness in a world that treats him as a threat. It is a portrait of survival, clarity, and the toll no one wants to name.