“This slim book is powerful. The opening third holds this power as it is Olsen’s personal narrative told at age fifty without self-pity, without artifice. With her achingly honest outpouring the author establishes her credentials through experiences that are so visceral in her telling, that your heart aches. She has gone through it all–racism, depression and alcoholism, rape, self-loathing, and a painful divorce. The remainder of the book focuses on how she endures these trials and then, her efforts at transformation. Judith Herman, in her book Trauma and Recovery, simply states: “Trauma inevitably brings loss (118).” Olsen’s trauma and subsequent loss are substantive.” Read more at https://tinahudak.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/one-writers-story-a-transformation/