Nadia Bruce-Rawlings has written a collection of stories with a dark humor and candor that only someone with a survivor's gratitude can. She takes us on a journey that cracks open family secrets, illustrating the evolution of dysfunction from its very core. She reminds us, as children we do not get to choose our surroundings, while relying on our parents for protection, love, and nurturing, preparing us for our own adult journey into the world, and that more times than not, this isn't the case. Because parents get abused and scarred, by their parents who got abused and scarred, by their...