An Oprah book Throughout her adolescence, Ashley Ford doesn´t know how to deal with the worries that keep her up at night. If only she could turn to her father for his advice and support. But he´s in prison, and she doesn´t know what he did to end up there. After being raped by her ex-boyfriend, Ashley desperately searches for her sense of self. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father´s incarceration... and Ashley´s world is turned upside down. Ashley embarks on a powerful journey to find the connections between who she is and what she was born into, discovering that, however much we might try to untether ourselves from a painful past, the ties that bind families together are the strongest ones of all.