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I Drank From The Nile: An Unbreakable Memoir of Resilience
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $27.99
Publisher: Katya Dunko
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What kind of mother kidnaps her own child? The kind who has no other choice.
Katya Dunko grew up in chaos, learning to silence her wounds. Home, for her, was never a safe place, it was something that did not exist on a map. Pills dulled the ache. Survival became her mask. And the person who should have protected her was the one who introduced her to addiction.
Determined to prove she was worthy, Katya followed love to Egypt, believing it would be her redemption. Instead, it became the place that forced her to face the truth: healing only begins when the silence ends.
Spanning four years and four countries, I Drank From the Nile is a haunting and courageous memoir about addiction, motherhood, and the unrelenting will to survive. It is a story of resilience, carved from pain, defined by endurance, and bound by one unbreakable truth: the cycle ends with her.
For readers of Maid, Educated, Consent: A Memoir, Only Say Good Things, and The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom, this powerfully raw memoir of survival after trauma, including abuse, hidden addiction, resilience, and breaking generational pain, proves that even in our darkest chapters, we can turn pain into power and find the hope to survive it all.
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