They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives âlike a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path.â
But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker, she is separated from her younger siblings Norman and Rosie. And as Rosie discovers after Cookie kidnaps her from foster care, the one thing worse than being abandoned by her mother is living in Cookieâs presence. Beaten physically, abused emotionally, and forced to labor at the farm where Cookie settles in Idaho, Rosie refuses to give in. Like her sister Regina, Rosie has an unfathomable strength in the face of unimaginable hardshipâenough to propel her out of Idaho and out of a nightmare.
Filled with maturity and grace, Rosieâs memoir continues the compelling story begun in Etched in Sandâa shocking yet profoundly moving testament to sisterhood and indomitable courage.
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