Edge of Despair is the story of Jake Ellsworth, a semi fictional Black Man, who grew up on some of the meanest, and most unforgiving, streets of California; Jake lived through the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the narrator, through a first person account, takes the reader with him on a spiritual journey, starting from a young age, through all of Jake’s challenges, disappointments, and triumphs; confident that the reader will follow Jake to the Edge of Despair…