Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. If he can get himself back in the game, he’ll be able to clear his name and begin to pay off Shot. After the Lights Go Out is written by John Vercher and published by Soho (RHP). Then Xavier is offered a chance at redemption: a last-minute high-profile comeback fight. After the Lights Go Out John Vercher 4.15 328 ratings87 reviews Want to read Kindle 14. The progress of Sam Wallace's end-stage Alzheimer's has revealed his latent racism, and Xavier finally gains insight into why his Black mother left the family years ago. Xavier makes ends meet while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension by teaching youth classes at Shot's gym and by living rent-free in the house of his white father, whom Xavier was forced to commit to a nursing home. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to stay in shape by training at the Philadelphia gym owned by his cousin-cum-manager, Shot, a retired champion boxer to whom Xavier owes an unpayable debt. Xavier can no longer deny he is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia. Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life.
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