This is not fiction. This is my memoir - a true story of crawling out of a broken life, with raw lessons you can apply to your own journey.
What if your childhood felt more like a battlefield than a home?
What if violence was normal, alcohol was survival, and every day felt like a fight you might not win?
This is the raw, brutally honest memoir of a young man who grew up in one of the harshest corners of Eastern Europe - a world filled with cheap vodka, poverty, street fights, broken families, cold rooms, and colder people.
A world where nobody smiled,
nobody believed,
and nobody expected to escape.
Roman Kartasheuski was not supposed to succeed.
He wasn't born with money, privilege, or stability.
He wasn't protected.
He had no "safe childhood."
He had only survival.
But he refused to stay where life tried to keep him.
Through violence, betrayal, addiction to computer games, bullying, humiliation, toxic relationships, and brutal jobs, Roman made a decision:
He was going to climb out of hell - or die trying.
This memoir is not just a story.
It's a blueprint.
A guide for anyone trapped in darkness, poverty, addiction, or hopelessness.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE
✔ A true coming-of-age story shaped by street fights, fear, and survival
✔ Raw lessons on escaping poverty, alcohol-fueled environments, and toxic lives
✔ The mindset that transformed a lost boy into a disciplined fighter
✔ Real motivation for young men, teens without role models, and immigrants starting again
✔ No clichés. No excuses. Just the truth - and the tools to change your life.
✪ FROM THE BACKSTREETS TO A FUTURE
Follow Roman's journey:
→ from freezing apartments with no heating
→ from violent neighborhoods to the kickboxing ring
→ from gaming addiction to brutal physical training
→ from working-class chaos to earning a master's degree in Europe
→ from a life with no guidance to becoming a coach, author, and father
He didn't win because he was lucky.
He won because he refused to lose.
✪ THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF YOU'RE:
• A boy or young man growing up without a father figure
• A teen trapped in a toxic environment
• An immigrant trying to rebuild life from zero
• Someone who feels stuck, angry, hopeless, or lost
• A fan of gritty memoirs like Can't Hurt Me, The Way of the Fight, Man's Search for Meaning, or The Glass Castle
✪ THE MESSAGE OF THIS BOOK IS SIMPLE:
You don't need money.
You don't need perfect parents.
You don't need luck.
You need courage.
You need discipline.
You need one reason to keep going.
Roman crawled out of hell.
✪ Now it's your turn.
