Publisher's Synopsis
In this riveting and emotionally gripping memoir, Elaine Gordon writes in a raw and candid fashion. [Her] tell-tale journal, with its carefree writing style and easily digestible content, depicts heartbreak and delivers sequential, entertaining narratives with humor and sensitivity entwined. "Unbroken Vessel" presents the flavor of New York City's inner-city projects lifestyle and Gordon, as a young girl growing up on welfare, caring for her sickly mother. Gordon's heralding accounts of survival, through her domestic disharmony, challenged [Her] at age seven, to become her own heroine as she struggles through treacherous waters between childhood and adulthoodElaine Gordon's girlhood vulnerability, in these unstable circumstances, described in her memoir, begins with [Her] birth and spans over twenty-year, culminating with the birth of her daughter.One cannot wait to read, with anticipation, the tenderhearted stories that lie within the pages of "Unbroken Vessel". Gordon displays true resilience and self-reliance as a young girl with her unrelenting pursuit to overcome, arising from the unwavering love for her mother.
