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Walking on Broken Glass
Paperback
Biographies GeneralMetaphysical GeneralGeneral Parenting
Publisher Price: $25.97
ISBN13: 9781946566324
Publisher: Bethune Publishing House, Inc.
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Walking on Broken Glass is a haunting, unflinchingly honest memoir that dives deep into the jagged edges of love, betrayal, and self-discovery. In this searing narrative, Janet Pinkney lays her soul bare, recounting her journey through heartbreak, survival, and the reclamation of her power as a Black woman navigating life's harshest storms.
The book opens with a visceral account of Janet's solitary labor, a metaphor for the isolation and abandonment that threads throughout her early years of motherhood. Left to raise her children amid poverty, infidelity, and societal indifference, Janet grapples with depression, disillusionment, and the weight of generational expectations. Yet within these pages is not only pain but fierce determination. With prose as sharp as shattered glass and as tender as a mother's touch, she examines the choices-both forced and intentional-that led her to break cycles of dysfunction.
Set against the backdrop of 1970s Philadelphia, Walking on Broken Glass blends raw emotional honesty with cultural and historical context, including the rise of the women's movement and the struggles of single Black mothers in America. Janet's voice is bold and unfiltered, reminiscent of the unapologetic storytelling of Toni Morrison and the lyrical grit of contemporary voices like Jesmyn Ward.
This is not just a story of survival but of reckoning-of learning to forgive oneself, claim agency, and find strength in vulnerability. Janet invites readers into her most painful moments with fearless candor, leaving them inspired by her resilience.
Walking on Broken Glass is a memoir for every woman who has had to pick up the shards of a broken life and keep walking anyway, bloody feet and all. Triumph over adversity
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