path to resilience (eBook)

Severine Desrosiers (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
223 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-8384366-1-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In search of the American dream, young Severine and her French-Haitian family move from France to the United States. They quickly discover success comes at a high cost and life as an immigrant is far from what they thought it would be. What was once an American Dream turns into a nightmare when Severine's mom is arrested in the middle of the night. And when tension around immigration rises Severine is forced to leave the life she knew behind. She must go back to a country she had once left as a child and fend for herself. Will Severine be able to cope with the fact that she has lost everything? A once successful student and pageant queen is now left to battle on the cold streets of Paris while dealing with unbearable cruelty and overwhelming loss. A touching memoir of a world citizen surviving life and all of the hardships it can throw at you.This is a must read! A story that has more twists and turns than ever and a plot that gets thicker with each page turned. This is a compelling story of how a small-town girl suddenly becomes a world-citizen and finds her inner strength.

Inhalt

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE7

1.WE ARE FAMILY: DELPHINE,

SEVERINE, AND BRIDGET9

2.THE GEORGIA PEACH19

3.GETTING SETTLED25

4.DEATH CAN HAPPEN TO SOMEONE

YOU KNOW29

5.BREAKING THE NEWS37

6.LIFE AFTER DELPHINE43

7.CROSSROADS49

8.THE HOUSE AT THE BOTTOM OF

THE HILL55

9. SUMMER WITH THE COUSINS59

10. MEETING DIAMOND63

11.SENIOR YEAR71

12. ORIENTATION77

13. COLLEGE LIFE83

14. PROM ALL OVER AGAIN89

15. THE VIDEO93

16. THE LAUNDRY ROOM97

17. MY BIGGEST COLLEGE FAN    105

18. NUMB113

19. BREAKING POINT125

20. TIME CARRIES ON131

21. PRAYING ON HER HANDS

 AND KNEES135

22. SUNDAY BRUNCH141

23. THE LAST DAYS147

24. VIVE LA FRANCE!155

25. GETTING ADJUSTED161

26. OUT THERE IS BETTER IN THAN HERE173

27. AN ANGEL FROM THE SKY185

28. HELL, PERSONALIZED191

29. WHATEVER IT TAKES201

30. JUST LIKE OLD TIMES209

31. AN AMERICAN NIGHTMARE213

32. RACE AGAINST TIME223

33. COPING245

34. HOW PRECIOUS LIFE IS 253

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: American immigration • American Nightmare • Angel from the sky • College • Death • Dying • France • french embassy • French immigration • Hardship • High School • Homeless • Homelessness • Illegal • Immigrant • Immigration • Life • London • Loss • Nightmare • Non-fiction • Outlaw • pageants. • Rape • Streets • Traveling • University • USA
• ISBN-10: 1-8384366-1-8 / 1838436618
• ISBN-13: 978-1-8384366-1-2 / 9781838436612