Because of a Teacher: A Memoir

This book tells the journey of Etta. She is a mother and a teacher with a Master's Degree in Education and wellbeing. It has been a long road filled with deep potholes to get here. She began life not really knowing her mother. Her father remarried and she was left battling each day with her stepmother. She has no contact with her mother's family anymore until she arrived home one day to see a relative at the house and was told she would be leaving and would never be coming back. Etta's teenage years are filled with secrets she has not told until now. Then at eighteen she became a mother and faced more life challenges. It seemed Etta had jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Because of a Teacher is about the many challenges Etta faced to get to where she is today. This memoir is about letting go of the past so that she may move forwards.