The Spark That Survived - Myra Lewis Williams

\n \nMyra Lewis Williams is only five feet tall, yet she stands as a shining beacon of hope and inspiration to any woman who has has ever struggled through life's deepest depths of despair. In this memoir, with her own brand of unflinching, down-to-earth, humorous, Southern storytelling, she reveals how she crawled out of the darkness and came to stand in the light of building a few life for herself. Myra hopes that her story will show women that they are stronger than they know, and that if she could overcome her own misguided decisions and life's most tragic misfortunes, they can, too.\n \nAs Myra says, This is a book about how to overcome life's worst tragedies and your own dumb-ass decisions.\n \n \nMyra says, This is a book about how to overcome life's worst tragedies and your own dumb-ass decisions.\n \n \n\n \nMarried to her second cousin, rock-and-roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis, when she was only thirteen years old, her life became a roller coaster of happiness and despair, love and deceit, hopes and shattered dreams. In her own brand of unflinching, down-to-earth, humorous, poignant, Southern storytelling, Myra reveals how she crawled out of the darkness and came to stand in the light of building a new life for herself.\n \n \n\n \nAuthor of Great Balls of Fire, which was made into a movie starring Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder, this is Myra's story many years later, a testament to the importance of perseverance. Her desire is to show women they are stronger than they know. If she could overcome her own misguided decisions and life's most tragic misfortunes, they can, too.\n