“One of those rare memoirs that is both honest and fair, that pulls no punches yet lands at a place of hard-earned light and repose.”

— Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog and Townie

“This brave and wonderful book made me feel gratitude, care, and something like quiet awe. And it made me think—about generational inheritance, about the ways violence lingers, about forgiveness, and, most abidingly, about my own dead mother. I think of her, and of myself unto her, differently now that I've read Shattered.”

— Lauren Winner, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Meets God