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Raised by Ghosts: Between Three Graves
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $27.99
Publisher: Quiet Grace Publishing
Published: May 16 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Raised by Ghosts: Between Three Graves is a deeply personal memoir about loss, survival, and forgiveness.
She was twelve when everything changed.
After the sudden loss of her mother, Karlin and her sisters are sent across the country to live with a father they barely know-and a stepmother who never wanted them. What begins as a forced reunion quickly becomes something far more complicated: a home filled with tension, unspoken resentment, and emotional distance that leaves a young girl searching for safety, belonging, and love.
In Raised by Ghosts, Karlin Kilburn tells the story of a childhood shaped not only by grief, but by what comes after-the quiet, often invisible struggles that follow loss. Uprooted from everything familiar, she is thrust into a world where affection is uncertain, communication is strained, and survival becomes as much emotional as it is physical. In the absence of stability, she learns to navigate a life defined by silence, confusion, and the lingering presence of what has been taken from her.
Told with raw honesty and reflective depth, this memoir traces Karlin's journey through adolescence and into adulthood as she wrestles with questions that have no easy answers: What does it mean to belong? How do you love those who have hurt you? And how do you move forward when the past refuses to let go?
At the heart of this story is the lasting impact of grief-not just the immediate pain of losing a parent, but the long shadow it casts over identity, relationships, and self-worth. As Karlin grows older, she begins to confront the emotional wounds left behind-by loss, by family dynamics, and by the silence that surrounded both. What unfolds is not a simple story of hardship, but a deeply human exploration of survival, resilience, and the difficult, often nonlinear path toward healing.
Through moments of reflection, memory, and ultimately, forgiveness, Raised by Ghosts builds toward a powerful and intimate conclusion: a series of letters written to the three figures who shaped her life in profound ways-her mother, her father, and her stepmother. These letters serve not only as a reckoning, but as an act of release-an acknowledgment of pain, truth, and the possibility of peace.
This memoir speaks to anyone who has experienced loss, complicated family relationships, or the quiet burden of carrying unresolved grief. It is for those who have ever felt unseen in their own story-and for those who are still searching for a way to make sense of where they've been.
At once heartbreaking and hopeful, Raised by Ghosts is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring power of forgiveness-not as something easily given, but as something hard-won.
Because sometimes, the ghosts that shape us are not meant to be forgotten...
but finally understood.
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