Somebody's Someone

2009-02-28 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Regina Louise
Release : 2009-02-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 330/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Somebody's Someone by : Regina Louise

Download or read book Somebody's Someone written by Regina Louise. This book was released on 2009-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant and heart wrenching true story, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for connection in the face of abuse, neglect, and rejection. What happens to a child when her own parents reject her and sit idly by as others abuse her? In this poignant, heart wrenching debut work, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for someone to feel connected to. A mother she has never known--but long fantasized about-- deposited her and her half sister at the same group home that she herself fled years before. When another resident beats Regina so badly that she can barely move, she knows that she must leave this terrible place-the only home she knows. Thus begins Regina's fight to survive, utterly alone at the age of 10. A stint living with her mother and her abusive boyfriend is followed by a stay with her father's lily white wife and daughters, who ignore her before turning to abuse and ultimately kicking her out of the house. Regina then tries everything in her search for someone to care for her and to care about, from taking herself to jail to escaping countless foster homes to be near her beloved counselor. Written in her distinctive and unique voice, Regina's story offers an in-depth look at the life of a child who no one wanted. From her initial flight to her eventual discovery of love, your heart will go out to Regina's younger self, and you'll cheer her on as she struggles to be Somebody's Someone.

Somebody's Daughter

2021-06-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Ashley C. Ford
Release : 2021-06-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 303/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Somebody's Daughter by : Ashley C. Ford

Download or read book Somebody's Daughter written by Ashley C. Ford. This book was released on 2021-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist Indie Bestseller “This is a book people will be talking about forever.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration . . . and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down. Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.

Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son

2011-06-16 True Crime

Author : Gordon Burn
Release : 2011-06-16
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 049/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son by : Gordon Burn

Download or read book Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son written by Gordon Burn. This book was released on 2011-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in Sutcliffe's home town of Bingley, researching his life. A modern classic, Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son offers one of the most penetrating and provocative insights into the mind of a murderer ever written. 'A book which will, with some justice, be compared to In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song. It's as if Thomas Hardy were also present at the writing of this account of the Yorkshire Ripper.' Norman Mailer

Someone Has Led This Child to Believe

2018-07-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Regina Louise
Release : 2018-07-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 154/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Someone Has Led This Child to Believe by : Regina Louise

Download or read book Someone Has Led This Child to Believe written by Regina Louise. This book was released on 2018-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable memoir about one woman’s story of overcoming neglect in the U.S. foster-care system and finding her place in the world. Drawing on her experience as one of society’s abandoned children, Regina Louise tells how she emerged from the cruel, unjust system, not only to survive, but to flourish . . . After years of jumping from one fleeting, often abusive home to the next, Louise meets a counselor named Jeanne Kerr. For the first time in her young life, Louise knows what it means to be seen, wanted, understood, and loved. After Kerr tries unsuccessfully to adopt Louise, the two are ripped apart—seemingly forever—and Louise continues her passage through the cold cinder-block landscape of a broken system, enduring solitary confinement, overmedication, and the actions of adults who seem hell-bent on convincing her that she deserves nothing, that she is nothing. But instead of losing her will to thrive, Louise remains determined to achieve her dream of a higher education. After she ages out of the system, Louise is thrown into adulthood and, haunted by her trauma, struggles to finish school, build a career, and develop relationships. As she puts it, it felt impossible “to understand how to be in the world.” Eventually, Louise learns how to confront her past and reflect on her traumas. She starts writing, quite literally, a new future for herself, a new way to be. Louise weaves together raw, sometimes fragmented memories, excerpts from real documents from her case file, and elegant reflections to tell the story of her painful upbringing and what came after. The result is a rich, engrossing account of one abandoned girl’s efforts to find her place in the world, people to love, and people to love her back. Praise for Someone Has Led This Child to Believe “Regina Louise’s childhood ordeal and quest to find true family are enthralling and ultimately triumphant. I cheered her every step of the way.” —Julia Scheeres, New York Times–bestselling author of Jesus Land “Revealing and much needed.” —Booklist “Her story had a distinctly raw edge to it, as she chronicled . . . how she was deemed mentally disturbed and incorrigible for wanting what so many children from intact families took for granted, and how she triumphed over unbelievable odds.” —Kirkus Reviews “There’s pain and beauty in Louise’s vulnerability and her willingness to evict personal experience from the singular realm of self and take it into the world.” —Foreword Reviews

Somebody's Someone

1999 Fiction

Author : Sinclair LeBeau
Release : 1999
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Somebody's Someone by : Sinclair LeBeau

Download or read book Somebody's Someone written by Sinclair LeBeau. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to live down the negative stereotype placed on her from growing up on the wrong side of town with an irresponsible mother, Sabrina Lewis grows up to become a successful business women with several thriving beauty oriented enterprises. As a woman of thirty, she has everything that money can buy, except the security of a family and the love of a good man. That is until handsome Nathan Atkings melts the barriers around her heart. Falling in love with Nathan, Sabrina is challenged to deal with issues in his past which intimidate her as a proud black woman.

Popular eBooks

Somebody's Someone

Somebody's Daughter

Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son

Someone Has Led This Child to Believe

Somebody's Someone

You may also like...