Untouchable Flame was written to touch the lives of women from the age of eighteen to forty-five
An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year and nearly 84,000 child abuse and neglect cases were reported in the United States in 2005. Nationwide, more than 460,000 children have been part of the foster care system. I had experienced all of the above before the age of twenty-three.
Untouchable Flame, a hundred and eighty page memoir, is an inspiring, true-life journey. It tells the story of a young girl born on the West Side of Chicago, who was often left by her parents, along with her siblings, in a dark, cold, rat-infested basement without food and proper clothing for weeks at a time, waiting for their mother to return from her drug induced gambits to care for them. Terrified by the nightly visits from her uncle and aunt, who began molesting her at the age of seven, this young girl was forced to turn to the only person she could trust: her poor, disabled grandmother, who despite her lack of education and advantages, taught the children in her care how to pray and believe in God.