Broken Pieces: (and the fun things you can do with them) by Reedy Gibbs

Born the youngest in a large family of artistic souls, Ms. Gibbs quickly learned that survival in a home full of dysfunction and larger than life personalities meant either making noise, trying to please everyone, or mastering the art of invisibility. Caught between family trauma and the blurred lines between creativity and madness, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Seeking freedom and purpose, she finds herself drawn into a stoner lifestyle and living in a hippie commune. But what begins as an escape soon becomes it own kind of captivity. After bearing two children while living a life stripped of modern comforts–electricity, plumbing, or telephone–she battles her demons, escapes her self-made prison, and creates a life for herself and her beloved son and daughter–a life filled with artistic possibility and hope, beyond the shadows of her past.