A Life Made From Scratch

<p data-sleek-node-id=c51d73><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A Life Made From Scratch</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a brutally honest frequently funny memoir about Marie Newman's rise to controversial congresswoman mother of a transgender daughter antibullying activist and CEO. Marie shares the stories of her hard-fought business and political wins and losses while managing her family's transitions and mental health struggles. At its heart this is the story of a woman who has moved mountains and built movements. Her invaluable lessons illustrate how movements life solutions careers and families are built from a person's motivation to solve a problem.</span></p><p data-sleek-node-id=c51d73><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Completely unvarnished she shares the inside story of congressional life her unsuccessful bid for reelection ever-present misogyny throughout her career and the devastating sequence of events that would crush her political career and paradoxically be the fire that would finally free her.</span></p>