Her Story's Mine: A Daughter's Memoir($15.99Value)

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She was told her mother fell out of a moving 18 wheeler. She never believed it. In Her Story's Mine: A Daughter's Memoir, Kristen Monique traces the life of a woman whose death was ruled an accident, whose truth was buried before anyone had the chance to name it, and whose story her daughter spent decades carrying in silence, in her body, in her patterns, and in everything she refused to feel. Born into a family shaped by absence, silence, and secrets, Kristen watched her mother navigate poverty, abuse, and isolation before her life was cut short under circumstances that were never officially questioned. What followed was a childhood of grief with no name, caretakers who failed her, and a survival strategy built entirely on containment. She kept moving. She kept building. She kept showing up for everyone who needed her and never once recognized what it was costing her. It wasn't until decades later, writing her mother's story, that she finally understood she had been writing her own. The chronic pain that doctors couldn't explain. The patterns she had inherited without knowing it. The repression that had been running her life since she was a child standing in the middle of loss with nowhere to put it. Her Story's Mine is about what it means to be the strong one. About the grief that lives in a body that was never given permission to fall apart. About generational silence, the myth of the Strong Black Woman, and what it finally takes to put down what was never yours to carry. For every woman who has been holding everything together while quietly falling apart, this book was written for you.