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What My Mother Never Said
Paperback
Series: The Rumbi Matikiti Collection, Book 2
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ISBN13: 9798196740961
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some wounds do not bleed in public. They hide behind strength, silence, responsibility, and survival.
In this deeply moving memoir, Rumbi Matikiti writes for every woman who has ever carried pain quietly while pretending to be whole. From childhood separation and father absence, to watching a mother disappear slowly into silence, to growing up in the shadow of rejection and poverty - this is the story of a child who learned to survive before she ever learned to simply live.
In this deeply moving memoir, Rumbi Matikiti writes for every woman who has ever carried pain quietly while pretending to be whole. From childhood separation and father absence, to watching a mother disappear slowly into silence, to growing up in the shadow of rejection and poverty - this is the story of a child who learned to survive before she ever learned to simply live.
But this is not only a story about pain.
It is a story about the grandmother whose rough hands became the steadiest thing in an unsteady world. About the words that stayed too long and the healing that came too slowly. About the moment a broken woman finally stopped blaming herself for things that were never her fault. About faith that arrived not in a season of readiness but in the lowest, most ordinary place of a life that had run out of other options.
What My Mother Never Said is for every child who grew up carrying a wound they could not name. It gives you the language, the permission, and the beginning of the road home to yourself.
Healing is not forgetting what happened. It is refusing to let it define who you become.
It is a story about the grandmother whose rough hands became the steadiest thing in an unsteady world. About the words that stayed too long and the healing that came too slowly. About the moment a broken woman finally stopped blaming herself for things that were never her fault. About faith that arrived not in a season of readiness but in the lowest, most ordinary place of a life that had run out of other options.
What My Mother Never Said is for every child who grew up carrying a wound they could not name. It gives you the language, the permission, and the beginning of the road home to yourself.
Healing is not forgetting what happened. It is refusing to let it define who you become.
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