ASIN: B0090SK8OG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 293
Contained within the pages of this anthology are fourteen true stories of inspiration, guts, and courage that will inspire anyone who has ever found themselves loving for crumbs. As Emma Tsai says after she finds the strength to walk away from a relationship that nearly causes her to lose herself mentally and physically in The Spell of Starvation, “I spend my days writing, not about him. I can see the mirror from where I sit, and I smile at it, as if it’s an old friend I’ve called a truce with. I don’t need it to affirm my worth.”Some of the stories are not so easily defined. Lines of infidelity are blurred in Liz Prato’s A New Place, as she writes, “That’s the problem with want – it refuses to distinguish between right and wrong. It prefers to hide behind the self-righteousness of some gray area it constructed for itself.”And it is not always romantic relationships that cause us to ...
