Our Lives in Pieces: A Collection of Flash Memoir Essays - Softcover

Adams, Tracie

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798992661606

Publisher: Good Heritage Press, 2025

Synopsis

Our Lives in Pieces is a collection of essays, tiny microcosms of insight into the author's experiences with traumatic life events and loss. With raw honesty, she writes about losing loved ones to suicide and cancer. Her battle with addiction and Anorexia is woven throughout the pages as she courageously explores the detrimental, destructive effects of childhood abuse. Topics like motherhood, adoption, and marriage examine the underbelly of universal themes like failure, fear, and disappointment. In these pages, life is framed as shattered moments of deep despair, tattered along the rough edges of grieving and healing, calling us to see what truly matters.

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About the Author

Tracie Adams, a retired educator and playwright, lives on a farm in rural Virginia with her husband and two writing buddies who look a lot like dachshunds. Her debut book, Our Lives in Pieces, was a 2025 finalist for the IAN Book of the Year for Memoir. Her second memoir, Not Finished Yet, was a 2025 finalist for the BookLife/Publishers Weekly Prize for Nonfiction. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. Her flash essays and stories are featured online and in print editions of over a hundred literary journals and anthologies. She writes to find meaning in the suffering and the joy of the human experience. Recurring topics in her writing are addiction, motherhood, adoption, grief, and family. While most of her work is not explicitly Christian in content, her faith in Jesus is the gold thread woven through every word she writes. She considers her greatest accomplishment to be raising four children who have taught her the most valuable lessons in life. When she is not writing or reading, she can be found birdwatching, enjoying a playlist of 80's music on her porch, or being chased by five short people who call her Glamma.Find her at tracieadamswrites.com and subscribe to her free Substack @tracieadams for news and updates on in-person and online events.

Edition details

• Publisher: Good Heritage Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798992661606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122