You Can't Cage A Butterfly

Introduction This book begins with my mother. Not because she was flawless. Not because she always got it right. But because her story and mine are stitched together with threads of pain, silence, survival, and, eventually, understanding. I didn't see it clearly until long after she was gone. For a long time, I carried a quiet rage in my chest-anger at the things she didn't protect me from. But how could she rescue me when no one had ever rescued her? How could she give what she had never been g