Rivers Rock Me Home: A Woman's Challenging Journey from Denied Dreams to Self-Discovery by Lilah L. Lewis
About this book
Stella Ann Langston weathers the rising waters and churning rivers in her life as a sheltered teenager and young wife and mother to become a wiser seasoned woman in Rivers Rock Me Home. The story starts during the raging turmoil and progressive growing pains of the seventies and carries the reader through decades of Stella Ann’s milestones and challenges.
Stella Ann realizes her marriage is a one-sided relationship. Divorce is not an option, and there are a myriad of people and circumstances interfering. She is a strong and loyal partner who compromises her dream to help her husband achieve his lifelong dream. She is determined to gain genuine, unpretentious love from her husband as well as respect from his family. She is supported through many disappointments and personal struggles by her own loyal and loving family.
As her life spins out of control, her quest for a positive resolution and affirmation nearly takes her down. She ultimately accepts she is stranded, abandoned, and vulnerable. She hits rock bottom, not by chemical addiction or dependency, but by constant rejection and depression. Stella Ann quietly copes alone and makes choices of which she never thought she was capable.
Rivers Rock Me Home is raw, revealing, and heartbreaking. It is a story many women harbor in silence.
