Stephanie Larkin uses her personal story of early childhood (developmental) trauma to illuminate the long-term and far-reaching effects of trauma, abuse, and neglect. After a lifetime of denying that she had been affected by the mental health and addiction issues within her family, she realizes that her experience with childhood pain may be connected to some of her adult decisions and behaviors. Suddenly much of her life makes more sense.…

After fleeing civil war and spending a decade in desolate refugee camps, two hundred Somali Bantu refugees find themselves living in Boise, Idaho. “Resettled” recounts the challenges of refugee resettlement through the eyes of a volunteer who spent seven years helping many of them adjust to life in the United States. (Note: This book includes some material previously published in “Displaced: A Memoir.”)One hundred percent of the profits from the…

Grief Country is the story of a widow’s quest to become her own grief expert. Stephanie Larkin’s world was turned upside down when her husband lost his battle with brain cancer. “I stabbed at my grief with my pen,” she writes, but her poems and essays could only lessen a fraction of the searing pain of widowhood. She decides to throw herself into studying what the “experts” have to say…

Chizigula (also known as Af-Mushunguli) is an endangered and undocumented Bantu language that is spoken by the Gosha people, who live in Tanzania and Somalia (where they are known as the Somali Bantu). There are several thousand Chizigula speakers (former refugees) now residing in the United States. This book represents an effort by the Chizigula speakers in the United States to promote increased English literacy within their community, as well…