“Man of the House” by Dr. Colm McAindriu is now available for purchase
“She stares down at me, and I feel the heat of her eyes. I keep looking up at her, and she says, “I am only going to tell you this one time, and you had better remember what I say.”
– an excerpt from book
Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “Man of the House” by Dr. Colm McAindriu. This masterpiece offers a nuanced glimpse of what life was like if you were poor and Black in Jim Crow Mississippi. The author walks his reader through the brutality of his life—and yet even in this short book, that brutality too quickly becomes quotidian, banal, in the words of a famous critic of 20th-century fascism. This book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.
Dr. Colm McAindriu went into the military and later obtained two doctorates after leaving for Chicago in 1963. In his research, he is passionately focused on self-realization as a life purpose.
He is currently working on his third Ph.D. His hobbies include scenic drives to the mountains and beaches, reading, and meditation. He holds a special interest in self-realization research, study, and writing.
“Man of the House” is a memoir that chronicles the inspiring story of the author. Between the years of 1944 and 1963, Dr. Colm McAindriu was just a kid, a Black kid living in the Jim Crow Mississippi Delta.
His story brings to light what living day and night under the threat of death looks like for a Black kid in this era. Should he look at the white girl, or dream of her, and tell someone, or be caught doing so?
His mother forced him to help her raise her remaining 12 children and demanded that he kill his prized pig to feed her family. Dr. McAindriu’s childhood was rife with small moments of joy and learning, coupled with working in cotton fields, suffering both physical and emotional pain, and being the “Man of the House.”
“Man of the House” by Dr. Colm McAindriu now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/man-of-the-house.