Orlando N. Gomez
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The Opprobrium of Wanton Behavior: is an extraordinary and powerful novel based upon the tale of a family line where religion, politic, and sorcery become the most important aspect of life in the community's human dynamic. While members of a family face limitless ill-treatments, at the end a sublime state of mind helps them restore the family's dignity
Orlando N. Gomez born in the Dominican Republic where he started his law studies. Then received a BA degree in Criminology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and currently works as a Fair Hearing Advocate for the City of New York. As an author, he is publishing his second novel using the services of authorhouse publishing.
When a grandfather helps his grand son go to sleep, he answers his grandson's questions about his family's roots. The old man explains what happened to his ancestors on their way from Africa to America. While the granfather talks to his grandson the trip of his daugther Patty Thompson, and her husband to the Dominican Republic becomes the genesis of the epic described in this novel. Hard work and humiliation become part of the norm in the sugar cane plantation where Paty and her husband created the new family generation. This new generation was formed by five children and each one of these children had different life expectation. However, this is the generation that helps mutate the family's life predicament by helping the family in gaining more control of their lives
