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Avis knew one thing: She wanted to be a good mother. At least a better mother than her own had been. Could she be the exception in her family? She traded Romoland for Modesto, married young, and started a family. Checking the boxes didn't a happy marriage make. Before her children were a few years old, she already knew she'd made a mistake.

Following the author's wildly beloved award-winning Overlay and City of Angeles memoirs, Big as All Hell and Half of Texas continues the author's story. This final volume candidly explores the pertinent societal question: how does an ill-equipped adult child of alcoholics navigate life after a childhood fraught with abuse, scarcity, and neglect?

This searing, often bizarre tale of Glynn Brown's teens and twenties reveals her flight from Las Vegas to the formidable world of self-re-invention among the angels and demons. Glynn Brown unflinchingly begets a self from the unlikeliest beginnings, and now delivers a sequel illustrating heaven and hell on her continuing flight for self-discovery.

This collection of true stories will invite you to lean into the process of understanding the larger implications of how suicide affects others. This book poses several questions.

What happens to the people left behind when someone commits suicide?

How do the survivors navigate the grieving process? Which methods do they use? Do they ever recover from such a profound trauma?

These questions are answered through the written submissions of the 26 contributors to this work.

Join award-winning memoirist Marlayna Glynn Brown on an emotional voyage in Rest In Places to understand the alcoholic father she never knew in life by taking his ashes to sacred places after his death. Joined by her teenage son, the twosome travel to foreign mountains, oceans, volcanoes, rivers, lakes and cloud forests to rejoin John Glynn with the world he found so troubling. A

In the best-selling vein of memoirists Jeannette Walls and Frank McCourt, the award-winning author delivers her addicting breakout novel - a mesmerizing memoir epic destined to become a classic. Set in transient 1970s Las Vegas, Overlay is the fighting-to-come-of-age story of a resilient child born into a cycle of alcoholism and abandonment. The author develops a powerful sense of self-preservation in contrast to the fallen adults entrusted with her care.