I am a F*cking Miracle: A Story of Brokenness, Pain, Recovery and the Miracle of Second Chances

The odds were stacked against her from the beginning. Born in rural British Columbia, Ellen spent much of her childhood with her siblings in an old, small, one-bedroom trailer without power or running water. Raised primarily by an alcoholic father, after losing her mother at a young age, Ellen was-in her own words-the "weird, dirty, bush kid who wore dirty clothes to school ... and that nobody wanted to play with." By the age of ten, Ellen had already been sexually abused by several people,...