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THE STORY
Shelby’s life isn’t glamorous, but it is
predictable—and that’s the way she likes it. A survivor of her father’s violence,
she has spent a lifetime creating a safe existence devoid of dependence, but her
carefully managed world begins to fracture when, under staggering circumstances,
she becomes a single mother to four-year old Shayla. In a drastic attempt to escape
her childhood’s influence, Shelby moves to Germany, but she quickly discovers how
intimately linked memory and healing are—and how honestly she must scrutinize her
past in order to aspire to a richer future. Juggling a new job, a new culture, a
new daughter, and the attentions of an enterprising man, her fresh start becomes
a quest for the courage to be not only a survivor, but a prevailer.
The story unfolds simultaneously in the
present and the past and is alive with deeply human characters, at once winsome,
brave and flawed. Told from Shelby’s unflinching and candid point of view, “Shards
of Shell” is a witty, yet deeply affecting novel about the ravages of abuse and
the aftermath of survival. |
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