She Serenity

A military mom gives a glimpse into her past, full of both trauma and life-transforming gifts. From childhood to motherhood to divorce, she takes the reader alongside on her journey to find serenity. Shuffling her past with the present, the memoir revolves around her voluntary decision to become a resident at a mental institution, and about the changes she effected on the world around her as well as the transformation that took place within her through the course of her short-term stay. Interspersed with colorful narratives of people and places in her early life, as well as haunting flashbacks of car accidents, run-ins with the law, and a scarring hostage encounter and murder attempt, this memoir is poetically written and honest in all its vulnerability.