An Abbreviated Life

In "An Abbreviated Life," Ariel Leve shares her candid and poignant memoir of growing up without boundaries. Raised by an unstable mother, Leve learned to become her own parent and survive in a world of conditional love. Her coping mechanisms later incapacitated her as an adult, until she was able to emancipate herself from the past and build a better life. This haunting story explores the impact of chronic psychological maltreatment on a child's developing brain, and the possibility of an unabbreviated life.