Stitching what love broke
AUTHOR
So you found your way here.
Pull up a chair. My stories carry threads of family and estrangement, heartbreak and hope, forgiveness and second chances, all drawn from roads I have actually walked.
I write about what happens when life comes undone, and the courage it takes to stitch the pieces back together.
MEMOIR
Seven Stitches in Neverland
A Daughter, Her Homeless Mother, and the Peter Pan Costumes that Mended the Past
Stitching forgiveness.
Reconnecting a family.
Finding home.
What if the person who broke your heart was also the person who taught you how to mend it?
Reviews
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Honest, tender, and beautifully written
"Seven Stitches in Neverland is one of those rare books that stays with you long after you’ve finished reading it. Honest, tender, and beautifully written, this is a story about family, hope, and the sometimes complicated path to forgiveness. I believe this book will live in your heart, as it does in mine."
—Debra Landwehr Engle
Author of the forthcoming The Writer's Miracle Method
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Irresistible debut memoir
The setup in Donna Kehl’s debut memoir is irresistible: a middle school drama teacher, mid-production on Peter Pan, already in over her head on costume orders she can’t yet afford, when she learns her estranged mother is living in a refrigerator box behind a discount store. Kehl refuses to craft the easy version of this story. “Not all mothers deserve the same respect,” she writes. The book’s premise lives in that sentence. You can show up for someone without going back, compassion is not the same as amnesia, and healing doesn’t require erasing the scars. This book is for readers who loved What My Bones Know and The Many Lives of Mama Love. It’s a story about the Lost Boys onstage and the lost child offstage, told by a writer who has done the hard looking.
—Julie Ryan McGue,
Author of Twice a Daughter, Belonging Matters, and Twice the Family
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"Every detail was thoughtfully executed. We're thrilled with the outcome."
—Former Customer