This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

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Germany, admittedly has a obvious tough issue politically given its history,but also has taken in a million plus refugees from middle east,alongside a significant historical Turkish population,and could go anyway,but has been a reluctant enough contributor to the ukraine....the only ones remaining egging in Israel are the yanks,and given their and British navy in the Mediterranean, suggests there is intel of strong outside country willing to place a stake for the Palestinians(perhaps Syria after all the help Palestinians,hamas in particular gave it in its civil war) Wallace] crafts a compelling narrative that pulls the reader headlong into a story whose energy never wanes. He’s thoughtful and thought-provoking… and he writes with courage and candor… [ This Isn’t Going to End Well] is a memoir borne of intense experience and introspection, which is the only available panacea for what troubles us.” ― PineStraw Magazine A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronicle with tremendous compassion — for William, for everyone. This Isn’t Going to End Well gives off the particular radiance of a life lived hard, whatever else: as such, a brand of American bildungsroman. There’s deep satisfaction to its arc, despite its inherent sadness — a wondrous glimpse of the melding, in human doings, of fate, character and serendipity.”― Washington Post

This brilliantly layered book is about what calls us to write, create, dance and even destroy those we love. What began as Daniel Wallace’s story became my story, too – the writer who lives “in that place between experience and understanding” and is compelled to touch bone regardless of the pain. I love this book. This Isn’t Going to End Well ended too soon -- and like all great ghost stories I want to read it again.”

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Mr. Wallace’s older sister, Holly, had just died, at the age of 56, felled by the arthritis she’d endured since she was 21. It’d been 10 years since the suicide of William, Holly’s husband. William was also Mr. Wallace’s role model growing up, the “ringmaster” of his world, a guy he idolized to the point of wanting to copy “the literal shapes of the letters he made.” Now, recalls Mr. Wallace, “I despised him for breaking my already broken sister, for abandoning her, my family, me.” Overwhelmed by love, betrayal, grief and suffering, Mr. Wallace considered the harsh justice of earlier societies. “Now,” he writes, “I understood why.” indians shouldn’t burn their daughters any more because it’s illegal Russians shouldn’t kill civilians anymore either because that’s illegal. You say Judaism is an ethnicity but I don’t think you’d get an Israeli passport if you weren’t a practicing one. I doubt they’d let you in on the basis of ‘Well Abraham was one of my ancestors but I don’t know the books of the Torah’ . I don’t understand how a religion can be an Ethnicity. Surely you can choose not to be Jewish and who’d know and after 1500 years elsewhere how they work it out. Still there are things even I don’t understand. But when William took his own life at age forty eight, Daniel’s heartbreak led him to commit a grievous act of his own, a betrayal that took him down a path into the tortured recesses of William’s past. Eventually a new picture emerged of a man with too many secrets and too much shame to bear.

Wallace] crafts a compelling narrative that pulls the reader headlong into a story whose energy never wanes. He’s thoughtful and thought-provoking... and he writes with courage and candor… [This Isn’t Going to End Well] is a memoir borne of intense experience and introspection, which is the only available panacea for what troubles us.”— PineStraw Magazine Wallace’s storytelling skill captures the vibrant personality Nealy showed the world, and his emotional candor the tragedy of a good man ‘who was toxic only to himself.’”— Booklist UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says that calls for a ceasefire “aren’t going to help the situation”. That's just part of the story... the BBC refuse to label Hamas as a terrorist group when they know that it killed and mutilated babes, in and among the many hundreds of others it murdered. Calling a group that deliberately does such things 'terrorists' isn't controversial or bias, its simply honest reporting and accurate use of language. So what next? Two factors make this situation impossible to resolve without a complete capitulation by one side: water and religion. While the one is essential and scarce and the other is behind all policy, nothing will or even can change. And so what?Of course we want to see Israel safe, peaceful and secure,” he says in an interview, but there is no indication from Hamas that they would accept or abide by a ceasefire. Daniel Wallace's first foray into nonfiction is a memoir dedicated to his brother-in-law, fellow author, and complete idol William Nealy. Wallace traces their intertwined lives from their first meeting in 1971 through William's suicide in 2001, and Wallace's own reconciliation with this fact in 2019. Wallace writes about the man he admired so much, the man he modeled his own life after, who influenced so many decisions Wallace himself made in his life, not least of which was to become a novelist. And then he writes about Nealy's death and the aftermath that rippled through he own life, and the twenty years it took for him to understand what happens when heroes die and become flawed humans all over again. In This Will Not End Wellyou will find the expected Daniel Wallace clarity, humor, and precision. But you will not find fiction. This is a true story about Daniel himself and his wild-man mentor and relative, William Nealy. Few writers can so seamlessly thread together love, loss, admiration, fear, pain, and hope. And this narrative is not traditional memoir-fare. It moves magically—unlike any traditional genre you’ve ever read. At times I experienced that thrill-feeling of a roller coaster dropping away from beneath me. This book is a rare gem gift from one of our very best writers.”— Clyde Edgerton, author of Raney