My mother, Edna, is central to this dramatic true story of our trauma-filled history - hers, mine, ours - told through my experience of living with her as a child and relating to her as an adult. The story unfolds with mysteries to be solved. Why was Edna so angry? Why did she burn down her family home at age fifteen? What happened to Buddy, Jr., her third child fathered by her lover, Bud - suddenly gone from our lives when he was five months old? has been referred to as a powerful dramatization, which includes my recovery and transcendence over trauma, especially repressed memories too painful for my mind to recall but remembered and released by my body, a replication of the original physical and emotional trauma. The reader may find their own pathway to healing after reading