Travel with Lauren as she spends her nursery school days in her parents' topless jazz club in Sydney, Australia.
Bloom with her as she comes of age in Seattle's burgeoning grunge era.
Hold on tight as you journey through her chaos-filled, roller-coaster life,
where she battles abuse, neglect, a debilitating eating disorder, and suicide. Lauren saw too much and grew up too fast.
Her mother was a beautiful and distant enigma,
her father a charming monster with pervy ways,
and her grandfather...a founding father of Vegas.
Pretty Things Don't Break
transports you into Lauren's turbulent, larger than life world. What she yearned for the most- stability, care, and love-always felt out of reach.
Celebrate with Lauren as she finds all she had been missing in her tight-knit group of friends.
Here, she'll experience her first love and first loss ...
When the world she'd been battling to hold together since birth crumbled, she's determined to put it back together in a whole new way.
effortlessly ebbs and flows from heartbreaking to soul healing.
It beautifully illustrates how despite any negativity and turbulence we may experience,
we have the power to change, redirect,
carve a new path for ourselves, and become free and happy and human beings.