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No one challenges traditional
roles and stereotypes more than Arlether Wilson. After
spending more than ten years in foster care she moved
back to Fifth
Ward, a poverty stricken community in Houston, Texas
where no one was expected to excel. While her life story
is similar to many African American women, it is surprisingly
distinctive. Arlether has always been an achiever and
attributes her drive, determination and will to survive
to her unyielding faith. As the oldest of three children
she was expected to grow up fast and relinquish much
of her childhood. Then just when she thought the generational
cycle of teen pregnancy was broken she became pregnant
and was forced to drop out of school during her senior
year. Read
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Title: Rewriting the Script
Genre: Autobiography
257 Pages
ISBN: 978-0-9797627-0-3
Publisher: Jerant Publishing
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Arlether's debut novel, Rewriting the Script is not just
another story about a girl surviving life in the streets.
It's much more than that. It is a soul stirring and motivational
story of a girl abandoned and abused in the foster care system.
After being placed back into a community plagued by crime,
drugs, violence, and prostitution she decided to choose a
different path. Life was difficult. However, she was determined
not just to survive, but to change the course of her family's
history. Rewriting The Script is a heartwarming story of desperation,
grief and triumph. This courageous girl's story confirms that
it is possible for anyone to Rewrite Their Life's Script.
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BOOK REVIEWS
It’s unconceivable to the mind, devastating to the
heart, and a T-K-O to the body.
Rewriting the Script will have you flipping the script! A
page-turner that’s guaranteed to make you do two out
of three things: Throw the book, rip up the book or cry through
the book. If you never read a novel that made you call out
Jesus name, prepare yourself, for all there is left to say
is “JESUS”.
This poignant novel is a heart breaking riveting life story
that begins for a young girl at the tender age of five. Can
you imagine a five-year-old saying, “He shoved it
deeply down my throat.”?
Can you imagine being forced to drink a concoction of dead
roaches in some form of liquid? These incidents don’t
even touch the surface beholding in this novel.
The story grips at the core of your imagination vividly of
the inhuman characters responsible for the incessant turmoil
of emotional and physical damages penetrating the young girls
life. As the author chronicles the story, she depicts the
demons that plagued her life in such detail
that you feel her fear, anxiety and struggles from within
those pages. Several times you will cry out, “no more,
dear Lord, she can’t take no more, please help her!
From within the author, this novel serves as a living witness
that you can survive against the threatening obstacles of
life’s cruelty that steals your self – worth.
This novel serves as a walking testimony of faith and strength
defying the “generational curses.” This novel
offers HOPE. A hope that you will succumb to Rewriting
your Script as you hopes it to be, not as life circumstances
depicts.
I applaud the author; Arlether Wilson for her courageous
willingness to expose her life of violence, sexual abuse,
abandonment, devastating deaths, incest, & deceit that
are now hurdles of victories.
Once you finish reading this novel, you will be compelled
to never complain against another thing in your life.
The novel is shocking, its powerful, its heartfelt and it’s
A Must READ!!
The rating for Rewriting the Script on a
scale of 1-5 is a 5+++!!!
Sidne Kingston
United Book Club of America
Sometimes she ate. Sometimes she slept but rarely alone. Sometimes
she was beaten for no apparent reason... and sometimes she
even felt a little loved. In Arlether Wilson's memoir, Rewriting
the Script, she allows you to travel back to times when her
life was barely livable. Back to when she was a five year-old
who understood survival.
Arlether endured all types of abuse; verbal, physical, mental,
and sexual at an age when most children were starting kindergarten
and at the hands of people who were suppose to love and protect
her. When calls were made to social services regarding her
mother's, Maggie, neglect, Arlether and her brother, Paul,
were placed into foster care. The vicious cycle began again
when they were returned to Maggie, only to eventually be surrendered
back to the system and endure the same mistreatment from others.
Through it all, Arlether maintained hope. She wanted to overcome
her past and seemed to find the key when she immersed herself
in high school studies and extracurricular activities. She
was smart, pretty, popular, and eventually pregnant. Arlether
knew that motherhood could not be a part of her equation and
had a decision to make. If she kept the baby, how would she
care for it? Was it not hard enough fending for herself? How
much of a future could she have being a teenage mother with
no support and a past like hers?
Rewriting the Script is a story that shows the true meaning
of motivation and faith. Wilson takes you deep into her world
in a very detailed, very intimate way. It forced me to face
the realities of victimized children. Oftentimes when reading
memoirs, I get a general picture of what the author went through
and I am left to my own feelings about the events. This memoir
pushed the envelope and not only painted pictures, but evoked
emotions. It is not an easy story to digest and it should
not be. The only flaws in Rewriting the Script were the editing
and pacing. The pacing toward the end of the book seemed a
little rushed. Even so, I recommend Rewriting the Script to
individuals who like emotional and empowering reads.
Reviewed by Darnetta Frazier
APOOO BookClub
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EVENT DATES
Resurrection of Me Domestic Violence Conference
May 2-3, 2008
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Brooklyn, New York
Conference Call (Book Discussion)
Tonya Blount
May 10, 2008
Career Day Presentation
Jewell Houston Academy
2:00 PM
May 16, 2008
Houston, Texas
Houston Black Expo
George R. Brown Convention Center
May 17-18, 2008
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Houston, Texas
Sister Circle Hour
Host Domestic Violence Call/Book Discussion
May 19, 2008
Southeastern Virginia Arts Association
May 25-26, 2008
9:00 AM
Norfolk, Virginia
Women in Action Retreat
May 30-31, 2008
7:00 PM
Houston, Texas
Black Writers Reunion & Conference
June 19-21, 2008
8:00 AM
Tampa, Florida
Shrine of the Black Madonna
Exact Date TBA
Houston, Texas
Reading Rendezvous
July 6, 2007
6:00 PM
Chicago, Illinois
Mocha Sisters Organization 2008 National Conference
Double Tree Hotel
8:00 AM
August 7-10, 2008
Augusta, Georgia
Brother 2 Brother Literary Symposium
Texas Southern University
October 3-4, 2008
9:00 AM
Houston, Texas
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