A literary nonfiction exploring the stories we inherit, the stories we survive, and the stories we finally choose for ourselves.
MY VERSION OF EVENTS is not a memoir of a linear neat life. It is an exploration of how a life can be interpreted, questioned, dismantled, and rebuilt.
Across deeply personal essays, the author traces moments love, loss, and the quiet negotiations we make with ourselves to survive.
Some of the journeys inside the book include:
When a friend asked, “Who told us life is supposed to be fair?” something in me shifted.
At eight years old, she learned a quiet rule of survival that needing less makes her easier to love.
For years, I hid the truth about what my father did for a living.
They called her a returnee, as if she were rejected goods returned by a customer.
I spent ten hours waiting for assistance in a hospital that had become indifferent to human suffering.
The hardest letter I ever wrote was the one giving my father permission to die.
They told me I was too dark to be beautiful, and for years I believed them.
He did not break my heart; he broke open the walls I had built around it.
The strong Black woman died so that the strong Black woman could be born.
I was always the emotional sanctuary for everyone, except myself.
Juliet’s balcony scene once felt like rebellion; then it started to mean so much more.
The danger of defining someone by their ID cards is not only misunderstanding; it is reduction. No single story can hold the multitude of a human being.
My father and I shared a closeness that never needed explanation. In his presence, my worth felt unquestioned, unproven, undefended. It simply was.
When he died, I expected grief to arrive as visible sorrow and exhaustion. Instead, something quieter happened. The internal architecture that had held my life together shifted. What I believed about safety, certainty, and identity began to loosen.
In that disorientation, I began to write. Not as a project, but as a way to sit still long enough to understand what had changed.
At first, I thought I was writing my way back to the person I had been before loss.
But grief did not return me to who I was. It rewrote me.
What began as a private attempt to recentre myself slowly became a collection of essays exploring the stories we inherit, the stories we survive, and the stories we finally choose for ourselves.
My Version of Events is a record of that journey.
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The debut literary nonfiction collection: MY VERSION OF EVENTS will be released in June 2026.
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The first 25 readers will also receive the SPASH Reflection Journal to begin documenting their own version of events.