The Well: a Memoir

Audrey Streetman has written a vivid and powerful memoir about growing up in rural Texas in the 1940s without electricity or running water. It's a story about accepting our humanity, about living through traumatic events in childhood, and even more so as an adult, and by the grace of God, coming to lead a fulfilling and productive life. Streetman's unique and compelling voice guides us through Oklahoma banking in the 1970s and 1980s to show what it was like for a woman, without a university degree, to rise through the ranks of a male-dominated profession to become a successful commercial loan officer and eventually a senior vice president. This courageous book about one woman's spiritual and psychological journey reads like a novel, and details how those who believe in us as mentors and friends carry us through to redemption. "Few writers have the gift for language, combined with the willingness to reveal the unvarnished folds of their psyche, necessary to produce a memoir of such emotional depth and honesty. I suspect that it is impossible to read this book without learning something not only about the author, but about yourself." - William Bernhardt, New York Times bestselling author his latest book, Capitol Betrayal, in stores now