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This memoir tells the brutally honest story of how author Sarah Ann Murphy learned to overcome serious depression and a failure-to-thrive childhood. She begins with her birth and traces her childhood with an Irish, alcoholic mother who abandoned her emotionally. As a child, her existence was barely tolerated by her Old Mother; birthdays were not acknowledged or celebrated at all. As she recounts the ups and downs--mostly downs--of her growing up years, she comes to the realization that the best times were with her animals.

She learned to thrive because her animals taught her that...

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you don't find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? It's against rules but we can't allow the children's last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his hand or is that a cell phone? It's too dark, but the call was a man with a gun If you're right...

While much attention is focused on the border between Mexico and the US, the poems, essays, and short stories in this anthology focus on the northeast, unique for its shared borders and boundaries, the bridges between, the blood and heritage people share and the things that divide them. Some of the world's highest tides surge in and out every day in this place where waves of people have come and gone; Native and First Nations people have been here for ten thousand years. The land is disputed in places, in others the US and Canada share responsibility, and Native Lands reside as sovereign...