The Road Home: A True Story

By Jay Tembo

From growing up in Zambia and Zimbabwe to moving to the United States of America, Jay Tembo has lived an incredible life.
When he was nine years old, he began attending a Christian school, where he excelled and developed a lifelong passion for learning. He also enjoyed playing baseball and soccer and even became a Boy Scout. In high school, he excelled at basketball.
He studied accounting and was enjoying great success when he started having severe headaches. He battled through them and headed to the United States of America.
Once there, he began working at a Taco Bell before joining QVC and then PFPC—but eventually he found himself homeless. He bounced around from shelter to shelter and was involuntarily committed to several hospitals and diagnosed with depression, PTSD, and schizo-affective disorder.
Join the author as he shares the obstacles he’s overcome and how faith, hard work, and high ideals have helped him succeed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664208650

Jay Tembo

Jay Tembo was born in 1979 in Lusaka, Zambia. His parents were Don and Ann Tembo. His mother died at age 70 and his father died at age 51. His mother had a son from her first marriage and his father had three children from his first marriage.

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