Impertinent Questions: A Memoir (WIP)
What happens when a child raised by talk shows and
trauma refuses to stop asking why?
Great question.
From juvenile hall to author (and future publishing house owner), Impertinent Questions is my unflinching memoir of being labeled “too much” by everyone around me—and the woman I’ve become by refusing to be quiet.
I was three when I first realized I was a problem. By twelve, I was in the system. I grew up in chaos: addiction, violence, group homes,
and exile from every space that couldn’t hold my questions.
But I didn’t stop asking.
Not when therapists wrote me off as “cured” for being self aware. Not when jobs fired me for being “too intense.” Not even when the truth cost me everything—my best friends, my family, and my body.
As I stumbled through healing—plant medicine, spiritual practice, taking a relationship from Hell to Eden, the relentless grief of starting over, and the constant comfort of books and writing—I found something hidden beneath my rage: a devotional fire, and the voice of the goddess Kali, who doesn’t punish too muchness—she honors it.
Told with dark humor, lyrical honesty, and fierce compassion, Impertinent Questions is my battle cry for anyone who’s ever been scapegoated for surviving. It’s not just a memoir. It’s a reckoning and the reason I write fiction about women just like me—one I look forward to sharing.
HE Nelson 