
The Return Trip
A Memoir
$81.74
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2025
Summary
For fans of Kerry Washington and Bassey Ikpi, a gripping memoir about overcoming addiction and trauma—a powerful journey of healing and redemption.
At age 30, Maya Golden was living a charmed life.
She was an award-winning sports reporter, a loyal wife, and a new mom. Privately, she was battling addiction, perfectionism, dissociation disorders, and rage due to sexual abuse endured at the hands of her cousin and many other predators.
But Maya w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781990253669 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1990253660 |
| Author: | Maya Golden |
| Publisher: | Rising Action Publishing Co. |
| Imprint: | Rising Action Publishing Co. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 162mm x 238mm |

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Critics Review
“THE RETURN TRIP is a blessed blueprint for anyone seeking freedom from the shackles of shame, guilt, and trauma. Maya Golden’s vulnerability, candor, and powerful storytelling shook me to my core. Her story is inspirational in the deepest, rawest sense of the word—zero platitudes and sentimentality, 100% real and transformative. A beautiful gift to survivors and to those suffering in silence.” – Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Maya Golden
Maya Golden Bethany is an Associated Press winning and Emmy nominated multimedia journalist. Her debut memoir, The Return Trip, will release in November 2023 and her first novel, a political thriller, The Senator, will release in spring 2025 through Rising Action Publishing Collective. Maya is the winner of the Excellence in My Market Award (EMMA) from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is the founder of the 1 in 3 Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides recovery and counseling resources to survivors of sexual trauma with little to no income in East Texas. Maya has been featured on Bally Sports, Fox Sports College, ESPN 2 and 3 and other broadcast mediums. She speaks as a survivor for organizations such as the Children’s Advocacy Center, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and Kids Aspiring to Dream. The Texas A&M alum’s career includes experience as a sports anchor/reporter and television production editor, newscast writer, field producer and print writer. She is a member of the Writer’s League of Texas. She writes fiction under Maya Golden Bethany.
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