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 reject merchandise, unwanted and sent back for disposal.
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.
At the beginning of 2023, I experienced the devastating loss of someone very dear to my heart.
Because of the closeness we shared, I expected grief to arrive as visible sorrow and exhaustion. Instead, something far more disorienting happened.
The internal architecture that had quietly held my life together began to shift. What I believed about safety, certainty, and even who I was started 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 believed I was writing my way back to the person I had been before the loss.
But grief did not return me to who I was. It rewrote me.
What began as a private attempt to find my centre slowly grew into this book.
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My Version of Events is anticipated for release in 2026.
To mark the launch, a limited Founding Reader Edition will be available for pre-order.
The first 50 readers will receive a special Founding Reader copy, which includes:
A signed copy of the book.
An exclusive note from the author as part of the Founding Reader Series.
What is the Founding Reader Series?
Each note included in these copies forms part of a larger reflection on the writing of the book.
Individually, each note offers only a fragment.
Together, the fifty notes form a complete message.
In the spirit of SPASH; where meaning emerges through shared perspectives, the full reflection can only be discovered when Founding Readers come together and connect their individual notes.
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