Welcome to Litsy!

Kelly Grey Carlisle is a gifted storyteller and she has quite a story to tell. At 3 weeks old, a detective finds her asleep in a draw of a seedy West Hollywood motel. Her mother has been strangled to death. What follows are her years being raised by her unconventional grandparents and the path to discovering who caused her mother‘s death. A story about redemption & recovery.
Special thanks to @BookNAround for sending me this book!!! I loved it ❤️

Picked this up from my TBR last night and I‘m completely hooked 🎣Thanks to @BookNAround who sent it my way 2 years ago!!!!!! Why did I wait so long?????

An incredibly difficult book to read. It was very well written but has such graphic content...real...raw...challenging what family looks like and how the village that raised you is not one size fits all. What a story of overcoming and pressing through some very tough family dynamics. Amazing how the author has gained perspective and wrestled with who she is and where she's come from.

I wasn't crazy about this one. Which is sad bc the blurb sounds right up my alley. Most of the book is spent talking about her terrible childhood. When it got to her adult life and addressed her quest to find out more about her parents, I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, that wasn't until the last few chapters.

My son Eric is home for the next 10 days!!! And he brought me some of my #BookMail 😊Thank you so much for the tagged book @BookNAround

When the author thanks me for my review. :)

I LOVED reading this memoir. I met Kelly a couple of weeks ago at the Southern Voices festival here in Hoover, Al, and I got to hear her speak as well. She‘s an amazing person—articulate, intelligent and lovely. She made me cry and so did her story. And she finally got to see a photo of her mom as an adult and she looks just like her. ❤️ Some people have so many obstacles to overcome and do so with grace and love and Kelly is one of those people.

Been there done that. Usually when I'm mourning the ending of a great book, or when I start to overthink and realize that there are so many great #books out there that I won't get to read because I'm not immortal. Damn you lifespan!