Miss Emma's Regret: a Novel Inspired by True Story

She danced when the church said to stop, married a near stranger, built a dairy from nothing, and raised six daughters. Now at eighty-seven, Emma Sullivan Sharpe faces her hardest opponent yet: her five remaining daughters. As the pressure to move her to a nursing home reaches a fever pitch, Emma retreats to the only place they can't follow-her past. This intimate Southern memoir weaves between Emma's stubborn standoff with her adult children and her past shaped by faith, doubt, and fierce independence. Her story spans generations, from a rebellious teenage girl thrown out of her Mississippi church, who married on impulse and paid for it in quiet ways for decades. A woman who loved fiercely, lost terribly, and kept her deepest regret locked away where no daughter could find it. The intergenerational tension between a mother who has survived everything and daughters worn down by caregiving is both tender and painfully real. Emma's story is proof that the most surprising lives are often hiding in plain sight.

Pagina's: 212, Paperback, Independently published