Tales of a Survivor
- ISBN-10
- 163021406X
- ISBN-13
- 9781630214067
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-23
- Author
- Kristy Thomas
Description
We cannot know the most difficult moments in our lives until we are faced with them. This can be said for Haven, a mother in her 30s who is now faced with the most difficult time of her life, which makes her very angry and distraught because her life had already been a difficult road to travel. Being raised in a single-parent household because her father was in prison, Haven struggle with what love actually meant. She got used to spending time visiting her father in jail and only knowing his voice through the phone and in letters. As life moved forward, her brothers decided to follow in her father's footsteps saying that this is the life they had to live because it is the only life that they knew. Haven felt differently, she wanted to give her children everything that she didn't have and be everything that her parents were not. Unfortunately, life shows us that it is more probable that we will be just like our parents rather than being nothing like them. Now she finds herself a single mother with a husband who is spending the rest of his life in prison and her bundling up the children every weekend to go and visit him, as the cycle repeats. It is not until she receives a devastating diagnosis that she must reflect over her life, accept everything that it was, everything that it is, and question if she has the strength to push through. Even though she is going through a rough time, she still wants the best for her kids and will literally give her life to ensure that.
