Kim Ndili is a goal-driven woman, who can yield a roundhouse kick and a frying pan with equal effectiveness while wearing a pair of five inch stilettos. But something has a hold on her--her husband. For eleven years, Kim stood by her husband and held her secrets. Her love held her family together. Her faith told her to hold on even when it meant taking her two boys to West Africa. Will honoring her vows mean dishonoring herself?
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Kim Ndili is a goal-driven woman, who can yield a round-house kick and a frying pan with equal effectiveness while wearing a pair of five inch stilettos. But something has a hold on her--her husband. For eleven years, Kim stood by her husband and held her secrets. Her love held her family together. Her faith told her to hold on even when it meant taking her two boys to West Africa. Will honoring her vows mean dishonoring herself?
It is a story about the strength of hope, elusive but ultimately redemptive, with a cast of unforgettable characters. Torn between fear, shame and her spiritual intelligence, Kim wrestles with choices she never dreamed her family would face. It's a journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Nigeria, revealing the strength of a mother's love and the delicate but loving bonds that hold us together and ultimately push us through. HOLDING ONTO SOMEWHERE is my own personal journey. I believe that your readers would appreciate the story's psychological drama as well as the poetic undertone in which it is told. Riveting and deeply moving, HOLDING ONTO SOMEWHERE is an astonishing debut. A story readers will definitely hold on to.
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“The whole world stopped as I stood there, my heart broken into tiny pieces that resembled specks on the terrazzo floor that lay beneath.” So begins debut author W. Kay Shabazz’s chilling memoir of strength, courage and ultimate redemption from eleven years of domestic violence that nearly claimed her life.
In her memoir, Holding on to Somewhere, Shabazz portrays her abuser, a handsome, smooth talking West African hustler named Gbenga with a heartbreaking mixture of tenderness and revulsion as she guides her readers through a white knuckled odyssey that stretches half way around the world to her husband’s native home in Nigeria.
She recounts their time together with devastating clarity, celebrating the joys of motherhood and the beauty of her adopted homeland as well as the nightmare of abuse she was forced to confront there, with a radical empathy for both.
Most poignant is her strength, drawn from her deep rooted Christian faith that ultimately compels her to allow God’s direction and purpose for her life to triumph over fear and find the courage to lead herself and her children to a new beginning, beyond the confines of the violent world they had been living in.
By telling her story, Shabazz shines a bright light of transformation into the dark corners of a secret that far too many women and children around the world still live with.
If you would like to know more about author W. Kay Shabazz, please visit the publisher’s website: www.carbon2diamondpress.com or call 614-323-8911.
Electronic copies of the book are available on Amazon. Com for $9.00. Paperback copies are available from Carbon2Diamond Press for $13.95.
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