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Large print book

Finding me

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE 921 D2649 (CEN)

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Edition

Large Print edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Ebony Magazine Publishing, Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Physical Description

355 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Summary

"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote [this book], my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be ... you"--Back cover

Contents

  • Running
  • My world
  • Central Falls
  • 128
  • Minefield
  • My calling-- The sisterhood
  • Secret, silent, shame
  • The muse
  • The starting block
  • Being seen
  • Taking flight
  • The blooming
  • Coming into me
  • The wake-up
  • Harnessing bliss
  • There she is.

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