"In order to heal we must first forgive... and sometimes the person we must forgive is ourselves." – Mila Bron Nobody's Child: A Biography is about perseverance, facing fears, and overcoming unspeakable odds. It's about what happens when those who are supposed to love and care for us fail to do so, but we find a way to succeed anyway. Nobody's Child: A Biography is an urban drama. It takes place in the Brooklyn, Queens, and Harlem sections of New York City, from the beginning of the Second Great Migration through to the present. It is a family drama rooted in the life experiences of a mother, my mother Brenda. It's about overcoming drug addiction, complicated black family dynamics, surviving domestic violence, and the healing of family trauma. It's about choices parents make and how those choices affect their children and everyone else around them. And, It's also about secrets kept and the far-reaching, dysfunctional effects those secrets have on families. Finally, it's about LOVE. The love between mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, love between women, sisters and friends, husbands and wives and fathers and their daughters. One thing is certain... no life is perfect. This story is about imperfect lives, the ones lived by my family, mainly my mother – a most beautiful, God-fearing soul.