Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, beyond your bright lights from the media.

Award-winning journalist J. Malcolm Garcia’s essays high light the struggle, success, and stamina of average people affected by the injustices of America’s remorseless mammoth organizations and general public indifference. They consist of families and small businesses still recovering from the BP Oil Spill; the person sentenced to life in jail for transporting drugs to save lots of his son’s lifestyle; the widows of soldiers who died, not in war, but from toxic fumes they were subjected to at their bases overseas; and the Iraqi interpreter who was guaranteed American asylum, and then arrive and be forced to live in poverty. The soaring narratives told in The Fruit of most My Grief why don’t we feel the doubts, expectations, and outrage of these surviving in the shadows of the ‘American Desire.’