This memoir follows the author s harrowing journey from teen mom to award-winning journalist and
New York Times best-selling author. At thirteen, Daleen Berry was raped. By sixteen, she was barefoot and pregnant. And at twenty-one she was a mother of four children, tumbling headlong into a dark depression that nearly claimed all their lives.
A riveting true story, this memoir peers into the most horrible moments of Ms. Berry s life and demonstrates the astonishing resilience of the human spirit.
Sister of Silence has been called a brave book, Ms. Berry a magnificent storyteller. It was banned from Livermore High School in California in 2012 and turned into a TED talk in 2013.