Sandra Ellen Smith: Chosen, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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**In the tradition of The Glass Castle,a poignant, inspirational memoir of a lonely girl who survived decades of harrowing abuse at home to open her heart and redefine what it is to be a family and a mom.

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In the rich tradition of The Glass Castle and Educated, Sandi recounts her heart-stopping, nomadic upbringing amid the mountains of Utah, flat farmlands of Idaho, and California sprawl, as her father's schemes and scams repeatedly failed. She escaped to college as a basketball player and worked her way through law school, rising to head of litigation for Apple and raising two children. Having built a conventional life, she never expected to re-examine the pain of her survivalist past.

A sudden move east and a chance encounter inside the parking garage at the tony, elite Sidwell Friends School forever changed Sandi's life. She intersected with three young Black men, all football players at Sidwell, on scholarship. Sandi and her family opened their home to these young men, and gradually, they shared their own stories of hurt and survival with the woman they call "Momma."

Fearlessly facing the challenges of race, class, prejudice, addiction, and abandonment, Chosen shows us how one determined mother built a family of her choosing and recovered the affirming, healing power of love.