She: A Poetic Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781721032068)

Rejected. Depressed. Afraid. This was Juaquina Carter for most of her life. She struggled with fitting in and being heard. She was silenced for having an opinion that was too loud, so she often hid behind herself. She got rejected by her top school choice, she was friend zoned by every guy she had a crush on, and she was denied financial help from the college she enrolled in. These are all things that happened to her, but they do not define her. This is not She. She is resilient. She is a fighter. She is someone who finds it hard to give up even after being plagued by rejection her entire life. She refuses to live in darkness. So, she writes to encourage her readers and herself to keep going even when life beats you down. She writes to use her voice to discuss difficult conversations. She writes to challenge. She writes to grow. She writes to discover self through the world around her. This is She. This is Juaquina She.