A Word of Warning: Sensitive Topics, Powerful Lessons

Before diving into The Hate Game: Screaming in the Darkness, there’s something I feel readers deserve: a heads-up. Not because I want to scare you off. But because I want you to walk in with your eyes open—and your heart protected.

This isn’t just a coming-of-age memoir with quirky characters and laugh-out-loud moments (though those exist, I promise). This is a story about truth, and sometimes truth is brutal.

My book contains scenes and reflections that deal with:

• Sexual assault

• The loss of a loved one

• Suicidal thoughts

• Bullying (verbal, physical, and systemic)

• Verbal and emotional abuse

• Homophobia

• Mentions of the Holocaust and anti-Semitic bullying
  

These topics aren’t included for shock value. They’re included because they happened. Because silence protects no one. And because somewhere out there is a reader who needs to know they aren’t alone.

I have done my best to approach each topic with honesty and care. But it’s raw. Unfiltered. At times, deeply uncomfortable. One editorial reviewer said: “The Hate Game is not for the faint-hearted.” I took that as a compliment. Because if we’re going to talk about healing, we must also talk about harm.

That said, this book is also full of absurdity, laughter, awkward first crushes, ridiculous school assemblies, and the saving grace of a family who loved me—even if we were all a bit broken.

So, dear reader, if you decide to follow me into the dark, know that I will never leave you there.

This memoir isn’t about what happened to me. It’s about what I did with it.

And I hope—if your story is anything like mine—you find some healing in the telling.