My Life in My Own Words

When author Indian Summers family moved from Mississippi to New York City, it was as if they fell prey to the fantasies New York City offered, when all along, they were just a poor family with false hopes and sinister secrets rooted deeply in the family history.

In My Life in My Own Words, Summers narrates a powerful account of her troubling life, of being raised by a mentally ill mother, an absent drug-addicted father, and living among the inconceivable and wicked family secrets. She journ...