Should Rica invite her mother to her wedding? In her early early forties and about to remarry, Rica Ramos realizes that starting over could mean leaving her mother behind. She longs to heal the relationship, but her mother still refuses to acknowledge the sexual abuse Rica suffered at the hands of her stepfather, or her own culpability throughout the years. With old traumas resurfacing and a new life unfolding before her, Rica grasps the power of unspoken grief—and the potential to suffer or heal. Will she and her mother ever cross the chasm between them, or are some secrets meant to stay buried? As Rica navigates her options, she faces two ultimate choices: submit to a culture that shames daughters for not honoring their mothers, or muster the courage to go her own way. Offering a bold and lucid look at mother-daughter relationships, Nobody's Daughter underscores every woman’s right to truth and validation.

How to discover the root of your dysfunction and how it relates to the pain and drama in your life. How to recognize how it has paralyzed your purpose, and how to defeat it once and for all.

In 1913 when she is sent to the Austen Home for Orphaned Girls, eleven-year-old Emily copes with her difficult circumstances with the help of the town librarian and the hope of finding her younger sister.

After being raised in a home filled with domestic violence mental illness addiction and alcoholism, my sister who was my primary caretaker and rock committed suicide then 6 months later my daughter committed suicide in the middle of her own 13th birthday party. Whirlwind of tragedy, abuse, pain and ultimately, survival.

At the tender age of 12 I was seeking answers for my unwanted feelings of suicide and self hatred. Struggling with severe anxiety, I am lost and confused and later have to find out the truth. Anyone who has struggled with mental health can comprehend the struggles.

The story of "Nobody's Daughter" is a story of one lineage that represents the many. It gives the reasons why there are so many misunderstandings about who the Cherokee are and were from a Cherokee anthropologist. It is also the personal story of how one non-Western mind with a Cherokee descent found connection with her Cherokee roots; how one "Lost Cherokee" became found. This Cherokee story is a web of research that joins the broken and missing strands of a person and a people.

Jane knew she was a war baby because Mummy Grace said all war babies had to drink the treacly black malt from The Clinic every morning. Then Mummy Grace told Jane she wasn't her mummy. Her mummy was a lady who lived in Le Tookay. Or was it Cassablanka? An exceptional memoir, written by one of our most outstanding actresses, Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child is a vivid and moving chronicle of childhood.