The Flip Side
By Charlotte Russell Johnson
A Journey to Hell and Back
The Flip Side
By Charlotte Russell Johnson
A Journey to Hell and Back: The Flip Side is the third text in author
Charlotte Russell Johnson’s series of motivational books. Ms. Johnson true to
form has developed a surprisingly unique book. The two major characters
alternate narration of the story. This literary technique serves to mesmerize
and hold the reader spellbound. Two separate individuals on parallel descents
into hell collide violently, the force of which serves as a catalyst to
accelerate their demise. Then just as all visible signs of hope evaporate, in a
surprising plot twist surpassing Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the text evolves
into a completely different direction.
The Flip Side expands on Ms. Johnson’s previous text, A Journey to Hell and
Back, an autobiographical account of the author’s life. The Flip Side further
explores the author’s life, while also giving the parallel and sometimes
contrasting account of Ms. Johnson’s husband, Henry. The text begins with the
lives of two separate individuals in preparation for their first encounter and
then chronicles their following union. This book is appealing to a wide and
varied audience, including those preparing for marriage, divorce, raising a
family, or a part of a family, involved in or getting out of a relationship,
recovering from past mistakes, parenting, or in contact with any of these
groups. This book humorously pokes fun at life’s everyday problems. Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson provide unique and sometimes competing perspectives of their life
together. The text provides an insightfully honest portrait of the differing
perspectives of a married couple. The varying interpretations of major events
serve to keep the reader enchanted with the text. After reading this text the
reader will wonder how often they have misunderstood the intention of others.
The Johnson’s invite you to decide what is the actual truth. They say there are
two versions of every story and then there’s the truth.