Rose Wallace didn’t need IV antibiotics for her sewer stomach, wormy belly and a poisoned head, what she needed was good old fashioned honesty and the empowerment of a fully confident woman in order to make sense of the craziness that plagued her youth. In spite of the difficulties she experienced as a child and teen Rose Ania Wallace was able to navigate her way through it all and chronicles it brilliantly in her memoir “Rising from Quicksand: How I Rose Above Madness & Illness to Reclaim My Life.” Her strength was evident from childhood as she stubbornly pursued the kinds of things that a young lady hadn’t ought to, like desiring to play baseball with the boys instead of softball with the girls, climbing the plum tree and eating all of the plums she could gather, or learning to ride her bicycle in a day, however, having been perfectly trained in the practice of denial by the adults in her life, she allowed herself to at first be a victim to the circumstances surrounding her mother’s illness. As she began to discover her independence, highlighted by starting her own law firm straight out of law school, she also began to the discover the power of mining for the gold nuggets of truth which are often the most difficult, thought the most valuable to find. The result of her new discoveries transforms her life, as well as those around her.
“Rising from Quicksand: How I Rose Above Madness & Illness to Reclaim My Life” is a brilliantly written memoir by Rose Ania Wallace which reads like a fictional novel. The emotion and honesty with which she describes her transformation are inspiring and the way in which she weaves the details of her story make it a page turner that I had trouble putting down. Real, honest and emotional; “Rising from Quicksand: How I Rose Above Madness & Illness to Reclaim My Life” is a must read for those who are searching for a way to be free of their own madness or simply to be inspired and encouraged to step out and do the impossible.
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