Like A Redwood Seed - Stronger Than The Flames: One Stubborn Girl's Story of Survival and Resilience - Couverture souple

Sylvan, Fia

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798218409173

Editeur : Fia Sylvan, 2024

Synopsis

Not every extraordinary survival story ends in fame, fortune, or a name the world remembers.

Some end with something quieter. A life.

Like a Redwood Seed is the raw, messy, painful, deeply human story of growing up in a poor, blended, biracial family shaped by mental illness, instability, love, dysfunction, and the failures of systems meant to protect vulnerable children.

A life that cannot be summarized because it refuses to be contained. This is not a quiet memoir.

The journey leads to the wilderness of Montana and Alaska. Training Iditarod sled dogs. Living among Latino immigrants. Working construction through a Texas summer. Fighting wildfires in Idaho and working her way across Scotland. A life lived at full volume in the most rugged and beautiful places on earth.

It is a life of startling extremes—and a childhood whose consequences didn't simply disappear when childhood ended.
This is not a story with easy villains or uncomplicated heroes. It is about people capable of both love and harm. About the shades of gray that exist inside families. About what children carry with them. And about the strange, stubborn force inside a person that can survive circumstances they never should have had to endure.

Because perhaps we have been measuring triumph incorrectly.

We celebrate the survivor who becomes famous. The person who overcomes impossible circumstances and builds an empire, changes the world, or becomes someone everyone knows.

But what about the millions who simply build a life? Who learn to love despite what they were taught about love.

Who find laughter after years that gave them little to laugh about.

Who put themselves back together without applause, recognition, or anyone realizing just how remarkable that was.

A redwood begins as something astonishingly small. It survives fires that destroy everything around them. It falls onto damaged soil and grows anyway. They are stubborn, they endure. This is that kind of story.

This book is for the people whose strength may never be famous—and whose survival deserves to be seen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fia Sylvan
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798218409173
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 539
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg