Uninvited & Unbroken

A Memoir

by Suzanne Mela

$16.99

An Illustrated Memoir What happens when the one thing you've searched for your entire life is the very thing that has always seemed hardest to find? For Suzanne, that thing was love. From a childhood shaped by rejection, silence, and a longing to belong, to a trauma at fourteen that changed the course of her life, Suzanne learned early how to survive what she couldn't understand. She grew up. She became a wife and a mother. She made mistakes. She searched for love in places where it couldn't always be found, and eventually discovered a complicated, imperfect love that would become part of her life for twenty-four years. But life would continue to test her in ways she never expected. Through family estrangement, grief, illness, financial devastation, and the possibility of losing nearly everything, Suzanne is forced to confront not only what has happened to her, but the woman she became because of it. Uninvited & Unbroken is an intimate illustrated memoir, told through both words and haunting graphite-and-charcoal artwork. The illustrations are more than decoration. They bring memories to life: the frightened little girl, the rebellious teenager, the young mother, the woman in love, the woman grieving, and the woman who finally begins to see herself differently. At times heartbreaking and deeply personal, this is a story about trauma, motherhood, love, loss, faith, forgiveness, family, and the long road toward understanding that survival is not the same thing as living. And yes, there is a little black cat named Missy who arrives when Suzanne least expects her and quietly becomes part of that healing. This isn't the story of a perfect woman. It's the story of a flawed one. Just like the rest of us.

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