Destiny Control is a memoir.
It recounts the history of his life from age 2 to 82.
Born into a dysfunctional family with a mentally unstable mother and an absentee alcoholic father.
The author was homeless in Brooklyn at age six, sleeping in churches and stealing food to survive.
From 1944 to 1952 he sells newspapers and shines shoes in Brooklyn to provide for food and pay the $17 monthly rent.
In 1952, his mother sits the author and his sister at the kitchen table and calmly.