Gifts in Brown Paper Packages Audiobook Libro.fm

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Should she take the leap through the window into the unknown Seventeenyearold Kyrie had no idea if she could survive it but the notion of staying was much less appealing than the risks of the streets A bullet that finds a fleeing target in the night a baby held out of a highrise window and squatting in a rodentinfested apartment are just some of the experiences within Kyries family dynamic perpetrated by her fathers actions and enabled by her mothers acquiescence
Gifts in Brown Paper Packages Gifts is a comingofage story commencing the night New York City teenager Kyrie Graves impulsively flees the verbal and physical abuse prevalent in her childhood home to tackle life and adulthood with no plan except survival The night that Kyrie decides to exit her bedroom window one final time changes the course of her life
Gifts is a story of a young girls survival driven by strength personal growth a journey to selfawareness and ultimately acknowledging her truth Through Kyries lens the reader is led through vivid episodic flashbacks from her adolescence through young adulthood in a journey ripe with experiences that are sometimes funny often shocking and painful and always genuine Acceptance of her story and how it shapes her enables Kyrie to embrace the lessons ie gifts that strife and challenges offer despite their unpalatable aspects Kyrie reveals her struggles fears and growth through this tale while displaying the perseverance that births her power and voice Ultimately Kyrie recognizes and accepts all the gifts even the ones that come wrapped in brown paper packages