Laces
What does it feel like to grow up in a world that was never built to hold you?
By the time most children are learning to tie their shoes, Stormiey Weatherz was already learning something harder - how to survive a system that moved her like a piece on a board, from home to home, from place to place, from one version of herself to the next. LACES is her story. And chances are, it will stay with you long after you finish the final page.
This memoir follows Stormiey from early childhood through age thirteen - years marked by foster homes, fractured family bonds, and the quiet battles that never make headlines but shape an entire life. Written with unflinching honesty and surprising tenderness, LACES captures what it truly means to grow up in the cracks of a broken system: the confusion, the small mercies, the devastating betrayals, and the unexpected moments of humor that kept a child alive when the world kept trying to unmake her.
But this is not a story of what was lost.
This is a story of emergence.
Stormiey's voice is both tender and unsparing - the voice of a woman who lived through the fire, learned to name its heat, and decided her story deserved to be told. LACES challenges every assumption you have about resilience, about the foster care system, and about what it costs a child to survive it.
Perfect for:
Readers who love powerful, honest memoirs by Black womenBook clubs looking for a story that sparks real conversationEducators, social workers, and advocates who work with youth in careAnyone who has ever had to fight to claim their own identityFans of memoirs like The Glass Castle, Educated, and PushLACES is unsettling, luminous, and profoundly human. It is the kind of book that changes how you see the world - and the children moving quietly through it.
Order your copy today. Some stories need to be heard.
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