Imagine Me (Paperback) by Brenda Fantroy-Johnson

9781489712028. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 190. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 190 p.

Imagine Me is a riveting story of a young black girl's journey growing up in the early '60s. The setting is Detroit where dreams are formed from life experiences within a city ghetto. A coming-of-age story set during the height of the civil rights movement, this was a time of music, baseball, and fishing on the Detroit River, a time of developing and discovering identity.

The memoir gives a detailed accounting of how a self-described "good girl" copes with the early tragedies of childhood loss and abandonment. Growing from a child having children to the becoming of a woman who refuses to let herself quit, this is a story of strength and commitment to fulfill her mother's directive, proving to herself--even through domestic violence, drugs, and alcohol abuse--that faith can get you out and enough faith can overcome fear.

This is a journey of hope and dreams fulfilled.