Michael Paul Fisher
Author of An Early AdolescenceThe Newest Book from Michael Paul Fisher “An Early Adolescence” is available for purchase now.
What People Are Saying About “An Early Adolescence”
“Funny, witty, gritty, and deeply shocking! With An Early Adolescence, Fisher vividly shares his cultural crucibles while growing up in Thailand during the early 1970s. He portrays his military family, friends, and the people of Thailand with so much authenticity you feel as if you are right beside him… through his fantastical cultural delights, sumptuous temptations, moral dilemmas and terrifying dangers. Autobiographical storytelling doesn’t get any better than this. You will laugh and you will cry. It is a fast roller-coaster of a ride. Hang on tight.”
— Lieutenant Colonel Scott A. Porter (USA, Ret.), author of Here They Come, 2020, American Fiction Awards Winner
Fisher’s is a fascinating memoir of growing up as an Army brat in Bangkok, Thailand during the waning years of the Vietnam War. Against the backdrop of your typical American boyhood-elementary school, Boy Scouts, and Little League–Fisher’s tales are anything but typical. Rather, his is a boy’s adventure story set in an exotic culture where your maid has no qualms about hiring a hit man to take out a competitor. You’ll have to buy the book to discover if she gets away with it.
— Michael Little, The Daily Vinyl
Mike Fisher’s An Early Adolescence in much more than a memoir. Fisher uses the unique travels and characters of his earlier years as a laboratory to investigate the quest for belonging, identity and self that each of us endures, both in childhood and through our adult years. His writing is clear, precise and accessible, his story is memorable, and his themes are universal and timeless. Mike Fisher explains his childhood, and in so doing, shows us all a bit about ourselves.
— Greg Fields, Author of Through the Waters and the Wild , 2022 Independent Press Award Winner, Literary Fiction