Unshattered: Surviving My Mother's 123 Personalities and Transforming a Legacy of Abuse

What happens when your mother isn't one person, but 123? In this extraordinary memoir, Emma Churchman recounts growing up as the eldest child of a woman diagnosed in the 1980s with one of the most extreme cases of multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder. Emma never knew which version of her mother would appear: the playful child, the raging demon, or the suicidal depressive. While her mother cycled through alters too young or too unstable to parent, Emma b...