Cracks of DestructionCongratulations on your silver book award!

Synopsis

Each time Mom cried, the Lancaster family knew what would happen next: a move to somewhere new. By the time Sherrie was ten, roaming with Mom had led to seventeen moves-until the day Mom cried as she walked away and abandoned here children. Sherrie’s wandering then began and continued through eighteen more moves until her high school graduation. Her one saving grace was the couple who came to her rescue and saved her over and over.

As Sherrie tried to find what she’d lost, the convoluted path of her life was filled with bus stations, country-western music, soul-killing indifference, and the unlikeliest of characters-vividly complex, daring, and with deeply flawed personalities.

At twenty-two, Sherrie revisited what should have been the Lancasters’ forever home. It looked just like she remembered, except for a crack in the fireplace wall. That crack added character to the wall, yet she knew the crack caused by moving and abandonment had destroyed her family. It was up to her to rebuild her life. Sherrie Lancaster’s story is powerful and painfully honest as she shows us what it took to feel whole again.

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Author Bio

Sherrie Lancaster lives in Las Vegas, NV, with her son Samuel. She sincerely hopes her story helps others needing to find their way out of generational family trauma. Sherrie always knew from a young age that she had to write this book because she never stopped thinking about those times. It was great to think about the kid-perfect places where she lived back in Idaho, but those times kept interfering. She had to write it all down. Maybe then she would be the owner of her heart instead of what happened as a kid owning her.

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