Rise: A Memoir

Ris? was born into a family of chaos and abuse. Her alcoholic mother raged and beat her and her siblings, knocking their heads against the living room walls while telling them how worthless they were. Then layer on a father and brother who molested a teenage Ris?, add a cockroach-infested house filled with drinking, drugs, and sex'and imagine how it felt to be a young girl trying to survive. Yet even as a young child, Ris? felt like there was a life beyond what she experienced with her family. And on some level, her mother also knew that Ris? was not meant to be written into the family's tragedies'she named her after the opera star Ris? Stevens. As it turned out, Ris??s very salvation was embedded in this name.Ris? was able to rise above all the things happening around and to her. Because of this ability to rise, she was able to escape the weight of her family, and learned to love and believe in herself.

• | Author: Ris? Myers
• | Publisher: Black Bamboo Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 11, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0983728410
• | ISBN-13: 9780983728412