A Flower in the Snow

A victim of rape QuYahnis mother conceived her two years into her marriage to Louis Bell who kept the family secret gave QuYahni his surname and raised her as his own. . After his murder in 1973 the seed of sexual deviance planted by her biological father followed her throughout her childhood acting as a magnet to incestuous family members and neighborhood molesters; misshaping her identity and paving the way to a life of promiscuity and instability. . A Flower In the Snow accounts one small part of QuYahnis journey; sharing journal entries that unfold her victory over adult symptoms of childhood sexual abuse and poems that glimmer with hope perseverance and faith.