I Was There: You Most Likely Weren't But Still Somehow Formed An Opinion

I was there. They were not.In Unanswered Prayers, Alexander Hendrix created Charles, the Earl of Madera, as a way to tell the truth without fully stepping into the fire. In I Was There, the mask comes off.This raw and unflinching memoir returns to the people, rooms, secrets, betrayals, and wounds behind Unanswered Prayers, but this time Hendrix tells the story in his own voice. What begins with the death of his grandmother, the woman he calls his second mother and the Queen of his family, becomes a larger reckoning with inheritance, family cruelty, silence, friendship, sexual assault, racism, courtrooms, politics, survival, and the cost of telling the truth when others would rather bury it.With the force of testimony and the intimacy of an open letter, Hendrix writes about the friends who betrayed him, the relatives who failed him, the lovers who wounded him, the systems that did not listen, and the body that nearly gave out under the weight of it all. He confronts male survivorship, LGBTQ identity, childhood trauma, domestic violence, grief, medical crisis, legal abuse, and the painful question of what happens when the people who were not there decide they have the right to form an opinion.Part sequel, part memoir, part public record, I Was There is not a story about revenge. It is about memory. It is about evidence. It is about refusing to let shame, gossip, family loyalty, race, gender, or fear decide who gets to be believed.For readers of personal memoirs about trauma, survival, family betrayal, sexual assault, LGBTQ life, justice, grief, and turning pain into purpose, I Was There is a declaration from a writer who has finally chosen to say it plainly: I was there.They were not.

Pagina's: 234, Paperback, Independently published