Her Force Unseen

On the morning of his thirteenth birthday, Edward James Welsh Jr. lost his mother. What should have been a day of celebration became the dividing line of his life - the moment that split everything into before and after. Angela Welsh was thirty-three years old. Her son would spend the next thirty-three years learning what her force, unseen, had built into him.

Her Force Unseen is the unflinching memoir of a boy left to raise himself. In the years that followed his mother's death, Welsh moved...