Wait Till I'm Dead

<p style=text-align: justify;><span style=font-size: small;><em>Wait till I’m Dead </em>is an eye-opening memoir using both poetry and prose for anyone who has ever wondered about their own self-identity. Through the author’s journey as a child questioning her mother’s love to the loss of a twenty-year relationship to the memory- and self-esteem-destroying effects of epilepsy she draws the reader into a world of pain and heartache. Using poetry to describe the intense emotions of her thoughts and behaviors Eva shows how she overcomes that pain and leads readers on a journey to better understanding not only her life but their own.<br /></span><span style=font-size: small;><br />From her violent and painful childhood to the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of a family friend she draws us into her world so that we understand who she is and the struggles she has overcome to get to where she is today. Raised by a mother who finally accepted who she was as an adult and a father who was not emotionally involved the author poignantly chronicles her life up to the present.<br /></span><span style=font-size: small;><br />The poems in <em>Wait till I’m Dead </em>are intense and the stories heart-wrenching but the way the author surrounds herself with life is amazing—readers pull for her every step of the way.</span></p>