Pray to Aliens

Brace yourself. In her dark memoir, Lexee Booshay forces the reader to grow up as fast as she did. Her story begins in early childhood when her parents pitch Lexee and her younger brother into the cauldron of their own struggles of domestic violence, addiction, infidelity and poverty. Lexee watches over her brother, while believing that rocks, trees and birds around her will keep watch over her.

As she reveals the ugly wounds of childhood neglect, Lexee ignites the fires of hope with her uny...