Biography & Autobiography Women
The Chronicles of an Unwanted Child
a one girl's story growing up in the 1980s and 1990s Eastern Europe
- Publisher
- NOBLE GRAY PRESS
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2022
- Category
- Women
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781999033309
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $25
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990070853
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $25
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I was the only daughter of my parents who had stable jobs, were very well paid and were enjoying rather comfortable lives. I was neither expected nor desired to form part or ever benefit from any of that comfort. I went from being an alive toy to being the necessary evil to becoming a full-time domestic slave and a general labourer. I was converted into a center of frustration release and an insanity prevention mechanism. All of that and more was perpetrated as much by my parents, as my grandparents as by the many other people I came into contact with over those two decades.
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Contributor Notes
Svetlana Machurina Herrera Guzman, MBA (Lana Guzman, MBA) is an entrepreneur with two decades of academic and business writing and research experience. This is her first autobiographic work, originally published in 2022. Her other works include two full-length, professional books in The Get-It-Done series: The Get-It-Done Business Plan: Write a Business Plan That Will Get Your Business Financed published in 2020 and The Get-It-Done CV: Create a CV That Will Land You Your Dream Job published in 2022. Lana has also authored a number of fiction pieces. Her short novels series, The Unusual Lives, includes The Unusual Lives: A Victim(izer); The Unusual Lives: A Fool(er); and The Unusual Lives: An Evil(doer) published in 2022. She has also authored a large number of short stories to be released in 2023 as part of nine fiction series. She lives in Toronto with her family.
Excerpt: The Chronicles of an Unwanted Child: a one girl's story growing up in the 1980s and 1990s Eastern Europe (by (author) Svetlana M. H. Guzman; designed by Edgar H. Guzman)
I was born in the capital of Russia in 1981. I was born into what could be considered a typical family at the time. I had a mother and a father. I had two grandmothers and one grandfather. I also had an uncle, an aunt, a cousin and even a step-sister. I never met my aunt, my cousin nor my step-sister, who only knew me when I was a toddler. I had little to no contact with my father until I was about three and with my paternal grandparents until I was about five. The only two people who were there for me when I was born were my mother and her mother, my maternal grandmother. My mother removed me from the extended family once I was born. I am not going to speculate about the why. I believe however that my mother's view of a happy family did not include having a newborn around.