Product Description
My Mama was not my enemy, but rather, my lesson.
Mama and Us is a non-fiction based upon the experiences of a very impressionable young girl, who moves into her step-grandmother's old house. She is overcome with wild, child like imaginations, of haunting ghosts and spirits, driven by the desire to escape her current reality and the need for attention. She is forced to endure hidden emotions of inadequacy, self pity, anger, jealousy, resentment and hate, especially after her mother dies, leaving her with unanswered questions. Her outlandish perception of things and wild imagination, will take one on a journey experiencing, heart-ache, death, sex and love, while embracing emotional highs and lows surrounding a sadistic step-father and a resentful, alcoholic mother, who makes for raising five girls and two boys, an impossible voyage.
Mama and Us is a non-fiction based upon the experiences of a very impressionable young girl, who moves into her step-grandmother's old house. She is overcome with wild, child like imaginations, of haunting ghosts and spirits, driven by the desire to escape her current reality and the need for attention. She is forced to endure hidden emotions of inadequacy, self pity, anger, jealousy, resentment and hate, especially after her mother dies, leaving her with unanswered questions. Her outlandish perception of things and wild imagination, will take one on a journey experiencing, heart-ache, death, sex and love, while embracing emotional highs and lows surrounding a sadistic step-father and a resentful, alcoholic mother, who makes for raising five girls and two boys, an impossible voyage.
About the Author
Kathryn Carrington is a writer of poetry, non fiction and fiction, as well as, a collection of short stories for children. She is an avid reader and loves to fish, play tennis and spend time with her two grand daughters, Kourtney and Leah. Kathryn is a native of Baltimore and currently resides in Germantown, Maryland.
