Complex sentence: Her mother worked a day job as a nurse and was a budding journalist at night; she ultimately became a successful Latina columnist who wrote about holistic medicine, and later became a Jehovah's Witness, making Faye's childhood "even more chaotic".
Split into simpler sentences: Her mother worked a day job as a nurse and was a budding journalist at night. She ultimately became a successful Latina columnist who wrote about holistic medicine, and later became a Jehovah's Witness, making Faye's childhood "even more chaotic".