Award winning author, Michaela Renee, shares her personal memoir in Teetering On Disaster (2019).
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About the book:
Meet Michaela: she’s the girl next door. Except “next door” happens to be a 27-foot fifth wheel trailer with no electricity or running water in the Sierra Nevada’s. At 17 she sets out to take on the world, but ten years later, she finds herself right back where she started…in a small town in the middle of nowhere. You’ll laugh and you’ll cry-sometimes at the same time- as she stumbles upon a few Mr. Right Now’s and other adventures on her quest to find love and uncover the girl she always was but had lost somewhere along the way.
Join ‘Crazy Kayla’ and her nutty cast of characters for a little muddy-path rock crawlin’ through the true story of how her American Dream survives and thrives, in the face of life’s inconveniences and heartbreaking setbacks that sometimes leave her teetering on disaster.
Excerpt from the book:
“My parents argue to this day that the few years we spent living without any electricity or running water and without a toilet to flush, did not have a profound affect on my being or my life. But let me assure you, at my adolescent age, when most girls had a Gillete Venus razor, apple smelling shave cream made with Vitamin E and warm running water, it did.
If I’d been a bit younger, like my brothers, then perhaps I would have seen the value of the way of life my parents chose for us. The quote goes something like, “You can’t choose your family.” Good thing too, because I’m pretty certain that given a choice between the one I was born into and the picturesque normal American family I would have opted for the latter and then I never would have become the completely nutty, naïve, intelligent, Mercedes-driving hillbilly, small town girl living in a big city that I am today.
The elements that define me began with the inheritance of a dangerous combination of genes from my Mom and Dad, and so I’m pretty sure I’ve been teetering on disaster since birth. But the moment which began to invent my character began the summer of 1992.” Michaela Renee
Ssouthernlifestyle ~ Teetering on Disaster tells Michaela’s story in two parts: one from her youth and the second from her adulthood. Beautifully written with plenty of humor, you feel like you are experiencing the story with her. It is an inspiring story that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys reading memoirs, autobiographies and/or nonfiction books. You won’t be disappointed!
For information about the author:
Visit: http://www.michaelarenee.com/.
You can also follow her podcast: Be You Find Happy.
Other books that may interest you: You Can See More From Up Here & Lee Fitts. Don’t forget to sign up for a weekly newsletter from Ssouthernlifestyle and as always have a blessed day!
