I Was Listening: Love, Legacy & Becoming Reflections

By: Sherron, Marya Patrice

I Was Listening

Reflections on Love, Loss, and Becoming

Some of the most powerful lessons in our lives are not taught outright. They are absorbed-in kitchens and car rides, in arguments and apologies, in grief and endurance. They take root quietly, shaping who we become long before we realize we are learning.

In I Was Listening, Marya Patrice Sherron offers a deeply personal yet universal memoir in letters, reflecting on the formative love of her parents-an interracial couple who married during a time when their union was neither simple nor widely welcomed. Through stories of difference and devotion, addiction and faith, forgiveness and resilience, she explores how identity is shaped not only by what we are told, but by what we witness.

Moving through music-filled memories, hard-won marriage lessons, the loss of a brother, and the slow work of reconciliation, these reflections trace the tender and sometimes complicated path of becoming. At its heart, this book asks a quiet but powerful question: Who are we because of the people who raised us?

Both intimate and expansive, I Was Listening is a meditation on love that endures, loss that reshapes us, and the legacy we carry forward-often without realizing we were listening all along.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1961605996
• ISBN13: 9781961605992
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: KI Productions
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"