The Softness That Survives

from the bestselling author of my father's eyes, my mother's rage and inherited hunger comes rose brik's most powerful and honest collection yet. the softness that survives moves through a traumatic childhood, the toxic relationships and the darkness of a life shaped by hurt from the very beginning.

then motherhood arrives, and with it, one unavoidable choice: continue the cycle, or break it.

despite everything we have survived, despite the pain that shaped us and the hurt we carried for years, what do we do with it now? Do we pass it on, or do we choose differently? This collection is about that choice. The grief of it, the anger that comes with it. And the hard, unglamorous, deeply human work of fighting for your own softness when the world taught you nothing but hardness.

"the violence didn't make me gentle. I chose to be gentle, despite it. I fought for this softness. my gentleness survived the violence"

-- from the softness that survives