What Survived in Me: Poems of Love, Healing, Resilience, and Becoming

What Survived in Me is an intimate poetry collection about the experiences that shape a woman and the strength that remains after hardship.

Moving from childhood migration and cultural identity through love, alcohol misuse, domestic trauma, motherhood, faith, healing, and self-acceptance, Tassandra Barnaby gives language to emotions that are often carried in silence. Her poems combine vulnerability with vivid details drawn from Jamaican heritage, family, work, relationships, and everyday sur...