Girl Unbroken: A Sister’s Harrowing Story of Survival from The Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho Audiobook (Free)

In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie’s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.

They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mom who left these to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through everything they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is usually fawned over and shielded by her old sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, about Young lady Unbroken: A Sister’s Harrowing Tale of Survival in the Streets of Very long Island to the Farms of Idaho blows in and out of their lives “just like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her route.”

However when Regina emancipates herself as a minor and escapes, her siblings are separated. And as Rosie discovers after Cookie kidnaps her from foster care and attention, the one thing even worse than being abandoned by her mother is surviving in Cookie’s existence. Beaten literally, abused emotionally, and forced to labor at the farm where Cookie settles in Idaho, Rosie won’t give in. Like her sister Regina, Rosie has an unfathomable power in the face of unimaginable hardship-enough to propel her out of Idaho and out of a nightmare.

Filled with maturity and grace, Rosie’s memoir continues the convincing story started in Etched in Sand-a stunning yet profoundly moving testament to sisterhood and indomitable courage.