Length5h 47m
About this audiobook
Your past doesn’t define you. Your decisions will.
Neosha believed he had built the American Dream. He earned the money, made the payments, and created a life inside a home filled with people he called family.
Then the locks changed.
What follows is a story of love turned into litigation, trust turned into testimony, and a home transformed into evidence. Forced into a world of deeds, deposits, ownership laws, and courtroom battles, Neosha must learn rules nobody ever taught him—and fight to keep from being erased from the life he helped build.
Home Wrecked: The So-Called American Dream is a novel drawn from a true record, exploring property, power, betrayal, belonging, and the devastating price of discovering that love and ownership are not always the same thing.
A powerful sequel to Black Boy Becoming, this is a story about what happens when the American Dream becomes a legal battlefield.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length5 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2A NOTE ON METHOD
3Acknowledgments
4About the Author
5Prologue
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6Act I The Purchase
7Chapter One: The Dream
8Chapter Two: Belonging
9Chapter Three: Thirty-Six and Change
10Chapter Four: The Second Education
11Chapter Five: Daylight
12Chapter Six: Uncle Neosha
13Act Ii The Fracture
14Chapter Seven: Erosion
15Chapter Eight: The Quiet House
16Chapter Nine: The Notice
17Chapter Ten: The Storm
18Chapter Eleven: The First Courtroom
19Act Iii The Crucible
20Chapter Twelve: The Language
21Chapter Thirteen: The Monster on Page Four
22Chapter Fourteen: Renewed
23Chapter Fifteen: Two Minutes Past
24Chapter Sixteen: Counsel
25Act Iv The Trial
26Chapter Seventeen: Preparation
27Chapter Eighteen: Testimony
28Chapter Nineteen: Cross
29Chapter Twenty: Submitted
30Act V The Aftermath
31Chapter Twenty-One: The Arithmetic of Grief
32Chapter Twenty-Two: The Calling
33Chapter Twenty-Three: Paper
34Epilogue
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