{"product_id":"hannas-ascent-jayna-sheats-9781960373076","title":"Hanna's Ascent","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeven-year-old Hanna Shelby has one big problem: everyone thinks she's Johnny Shelby. She's not only miserable, in 1950s rural Colorado, a boy could get killed acting even a little girlish. So, she buries her doll and tries to fit in. On her twenty-first birthday while working at the embassy in Bonn, Germany, she finds herself teetering on a bridge over the Rhine River. She realizes the risk of not being Hanna is greater than being, and returns to college in the United States presenting as a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's disowned by her family and is fortunate to find a home with a German couple. Just as she's feeling fully at ease in her feminine life, a man sexually assaults and flogs her almost to death. She awakens from a coma acting like a child, with nearly complete amnesia, and speaking only German.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHanna and her adoptive family move back to Germany to build a new life. But she must confront her unresolved trauma in order to find her hidden dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough a work of fiction, Jayna Sheats thinks of \u003cem\u003eHanna's Ascent\u003c\/em\u003e as the autobiography that could have been if she had taken a different road, and much of it comes from her own life. \u003cem\u003eHanna's Ascent\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a singular journey of persistence, survival, and a reminder that good can happen in surprising and unexpected ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jayna Sheats\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1960373072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781960373076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Jayna Sheats","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138381410559,"sku":"9781960373076","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d0d22de-6105-43bb-a5d8-51e391e7eae0.jpg?v=1687899346","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hannas-ascent-jayna-sheats-9781960373076","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}