A powerful memoir of trauma, resilience, and female empowerment, House of Pretend tells the story of a girl who, raised in the shadow of her father's death by an emotionally abusive, narcissistic mother, learns early to perform, to please, and to pretend - and spends the rest of her life struggling to unlearn those behaviors.
Determined to escape the silence and neglect of her childhood, Joanne claws her way into the male-dominated world of Wall Street as a young woman - only to find that success means nothing without self-worth. When her boss offers her a million dollars to have his child, she is forced to reckon with everything she's buried: the deep ache of abandonment, years of chasing love in all the wrong places, and the belief that she's undeserving of more.
What follows is not a transformation into someone new but rather a fierce unmasking - a reclamation of the voice, worth, and identity she has had within her all along. Offering a gripping blend of raw emotion and biting clarity, House of Pretend is about what happens when a woman stops waiting to be saved and instead saves herself - with grit, honesty, and just the right amount of badassery.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
256 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
She Writes Press |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2026-05-19 |
| ISBN |
9798896363088 |
