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What a courageous way of revealing the pains, hurts, struggles, and most importantly the triumph of a woman who learns to dare, to chase, and to love. It is a must read! Teaches you to keep going regardless of what comes in your way! ~ Review by Jessica Daniels
Book Description:
Betty Tucker came of age in Belle Glade, Florida, infamous for its poverty and violence (e.g., see the Wikipedia entry and the 2006 documentary One Percent).
Her childhood was one of debilitating poverty, borne of racism: exploitative migrant labor, multiple rapes and other abuse, chronic illness among her family and acquaintances.....the list is long and bitter. Betty survival not only by sheer hard work but also by nurturing a nascent belief that she deserved better.
She moved to California, earned her college degree, and raised a family. Then, in 1997, she began a long and eventually successful search for the twin girls
she had given up for adoption thirty years earlier.
Fear, insecurity, sexual abuse, want, neglect: This memoir will look beyond the description of these difficulties in the author's life to examine how they stifled her ability to shape her own life, how she acquired the tools she needed to take more control of her life, and what impact her choices, both intentional and unintentional, had on her life and those of her children.
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