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How Opening My Home Healed My Heart
$54.59
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a poignant, inspirational memoir of a lonely girl who survived decades of harrowing abuse at home to open her heart and redefine what it is to be a family and a mom.
No child should grow up like Sandi Smith. At age three, she was locked in a closet. By age eight, she was behind the wheel of a car, and by age nine, she was forced to hunt deer for food. She was bartered as a child laborer to pick pinto beans and forced to clean motel rooms …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982198251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982198257 |
| Author: | Sandra Ellen Smith |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 515g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Sandra Ellen Smith
Sandra Ellen Smith (Sandi) was born in California and grew up across the West. Her harrowing, nomadic childhood included living in a shack without electricity or running water. She put herself through college at the University of California Los Angeles and law school at the University of Southern California, becoming the director of litigation for Apple Computer in 1998. She raised two biological children and, after moving to the Washington, DC, suburbs, opened her home and her heart to eight more. While in the DC area, she spent years representing domestic abuse survivors and their children, including as a Guardian Ad Litem in the DC Superior Court. She has also been actively involved on the boards of multiple academic, public, and nonprofit institutions. Today, Sandi lives in rural Colorado with her two dogs, Twelve and Thor. She is an attorney in private practice and president of her regional fire board. Her large, loving family visits her often.
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