Top Highlights

• In the stories that make up this book, I am trusting you with my deepest self. We spend so much time hiding what we’re ashamed of, denying what we’re wounded by, and portraying ourselves as competent, successful individuals that we don’t always realize where and when we’ve gone missing.
• It’s hard to tell the truth about ourselves. It opens us up to being judged and rejected. We’re afraid we will be defined by our worst decisions instead of our best. Our impulse is always to hide the evidence, blame someone else, put the things we feel guilty about or that were traumatizing behind us and act like everything is fine. But that robs u...
• A family, a clan, a nation, can’t be described without drawing a line around those who are included and leaving others outside the boundary.
• We’ve been friends since fourth grade, and I am fluent in her mannerisms.
• Horror Stories is my effort to slow everything down and take a look at how we really become who we are.