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Born with Deficits: A Memoir of my life
Paperback
Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies General
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 3 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Born With Deficits is the memoir of Asia, a woman born on the side of a Florida highway in 1983, not breathing, with a hole in her heart. What doctors called deficits, she spent a lifetime turning into raw material.
The book moves through three parts. Part One traces her roots in small-town North Florida, where she faced childhood molestation, eviction, poverty, and instability, while being quietly shaped by extraordinary people, her self-taught mother who lived financially free on a sixth-grade education, a church elder named Ma Gim who called her granddaughter and planted belief in her before the world could take it, and a brilliant older brother named Allah who she measured herself against.
Part Two follows her into struggle. Atlanta in the early 2000s brought homelessness, betrayal, financial desperation, and a sexual assault in Phenix City that she survived by planning her escape with twelve dollars and the help of a stranger who said God told him she was the one who needed something. At the same time, her brother was attacked and spent twenty years locked inside schizophrenia while she carried grief from five deaths in less than two years.
Part Three is about purpose. Asia builds Haugabook Alluring Homes, a transitional housing business born directly from her own experience of having nowhere to go. She learns a hard lesson about misplaced loyalty when a mentor betrays her trust and costs her a rebuilt credit score. Her brother, after two decades of silence, comes back. And in 2020, she meets the love of her life, a story she and her husband are saving for their next book together.
The memoir closes with a reframe of its own title. Deficits were never absences. They were pressure points. The places where life applied weight until something stronger had to form.
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