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What do you do when your body decides to give you the middle finger? Gertrude is waging a war and she doesn't know if she wants to win it, or not. It's a quiet war, with only one possible casualty. Her parent's kitchen table is a battlefield. In the car with her wife, another skirmish. Her...

Nora Cassin has spent fourteen years detecting the financial patterns other people overlook. During a routine quarterly review at Northvale Savings & Trust, she discovers that a hold she placed on an elderly customer’s account has vanished. The official action log says Nora removed it herself. But at the recorded time, she was twelve miles away. When Nora quietly reopens the case, her supervisor offers a convenient technical explanation—and asks her to stop filing new holds until the problem is resolved. Then a newly created IT document appears to support his story.

Fighting to Come Home is a deeply personal memoir about trauma, survival motherhood, incarceration accountability and healing. I thought I was fighting to come home to a place but I was fighting to come home to my self.