Memoir

The Night Garden: Of My Mother is the story of a woman watching the slow breakdown of her aging mother’s mind and body, as she struggles to connect the woman she sees now with the woman from her memories.

Memoir of a Mangled Mind is a raw, powerful account by Steven Simmons Shelton about living with Dissociative Identity Disorder due to profound childhood trauma. He takes the readers on an unflinching journey into his struggles of deeply personal pain, survival, and healing. This is a memoir of stark honesty and courage that shows the effects of untreated mental illness, societal stigma, and the resilience of the human spirit. This book is both harrowing and hopeful, offering a vital perspective on DID and the importance of understanding mental health.

American man, Scott Carpenter has spent decades living in Paris with his wife Anne. With Anne falling ill, her memories dissolved by the inescapable fog of Alzheimer’s, Scott wanders around the 13th Arrondissement alone, reflecting on married life, culture, and his interests. He captures the minutiae of Parisian life, all delivered in short postcard stories enveloped with wit, humor and heart cleaving grief.

Lisa is born into a transitional period in the history of her country, right at the tail end of a charged era. The characters within her small, nuclear family and a friend or two affect the topics of each essay in this short but punchy collection.