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Praise for Fierce Joy
“Breathtaking. Raw. Real. This memoir is about what it means to have a voice. When Susie loses her ability to speak, she learns to listen to herself. Honest and poignant, this book also had me laughing out loud.”
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“Come on down!” Dad shouts up at me. I can’t tell if he is saying that because he doesn’t need my help anymore, or because I have failed him. I cling to the mast as the wind pushes and pulls me. I swing way out over the water on one side of the boat, and then way out over the water on the other side. It’s time to climb down, but I can’t center myself.
I am thirteen and in junior high now. Fortunately, Natasha and I are best friends again. I quit the Cotton Ginny club and showed up at Natasha’s house with a box of Ritz crackers and a jar of peanut butter. I apologized and told her that I knew I’d been a jerk. I had let the fear of not fitting in blind me from what really mattered. “I hurt you, and I’m sorry. Being in a popular club is not worth losing you,” I told Natasha. She opened the door, and let me in her house. We cried, then laughed, and promised we’d be braver in groups from then on.
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