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AUTHOR: Martin Lockett
Photo taken May 2014 @ OSCI

Book Description
 December 5, 2013
"Martin Lockett grows up in a tough neighborhood in Portland
Oregon and by the time he’s fifteen, his parents don’t know
what to do with him. He and his homies steal cars, drink,
and smoke dope and even though Martin’s bright, the only time he
does well at school is when he gets kicked out and has to attend
alternative classes. As soon as he’s returned to his friends though,
he’s right back into trouble.
After Martin serves three years in prison for his part in a robbery, he
finally seems to turn himself around. He gets a good job, moves up
in the company, meets a nice girl, and he’s proud to buy his first car.
But his decision to get behind the wheel one drunken New Year’s
Eve, leaves two innocent people dead, several families destroyed...
and puts the twenty-four-year-old Martin behind bars for nearly
twenty years.
In what he realizes is a Palpable Irony, it is in prison that Martin
finally finds meaning and direction in life. Devastated by the tragedy
he has caused, he takes advantage of the educational opportunities
offered to him. With his study of psychology, he begins to unravel
the tangled threads of his life, gaining wisdom and insight that he
puts to use in understanding his own youthful motivations and in
counseling other young men, like him, who are headed straight for
disaster. Penned within prison walls where the author still resides,
Palpable Irony upliftingly chronicles a lost man’s discovery of himself
and his potential as an instrument for good."