Unbroken Vessel
Subtitle: One little girl's story of survival and her determination to become a woman of beauty and hope...
By: edited by Kim North
Edition: First Edition
Series: Unbroken Vessel, Part 1
Publisher: Kindle Direct Press
Published: March 20, 2019
Place of publication: United States of America
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 120
Copyright date: 2019
First sentence: Restlessly pacing around on the third floor of a rickety tenement flat on Sullivan Street in New York City's Lower West Side, my mother gathered the iron and ironing board to prepare for the evening.
Description: In this riveting and emotionally gripping memoir, Elaine Gordon writes in a raw and candid fashion. Her, telltale journal, with its carefree writing style and easily digestible content, depicts heartbreak and delivers entertaining narratives with humor and sensitivity entwined. 
 
"Unbroken Vessel" presents the flavor of New York City's inner-city projects lifestyle and Gordon as a young girl, growing up on welfare, caring for her sickly mother.  Gordon's heralding accounts of survival, through her domestic disharmony, challenged her at age seven to become her own heroine as she struggles through treacherous waters between childhood and adulthood.

Elaine Gordon's girlhood vulnerability, in these unstable circumstances, begins with her birth and spans over twenty-years, culminating with the birth of her daughter.

One cannot wait to read the traumatic and tenderhearted stories that lie within the pages of "Unbroken Vessel."  Gordon displays true resilience and self-reliance as a young child with an unrelenting pursuit to overcome, arising from the unwavering love for her mother.
Notes: "Unbroken Vessel" won the Top Ten Author's Award in New York City,
Table of contents: title: Part 1 < Born on an Island- Manhattan Island>; title: Chapter 1  <An Early Christmas Present>; title: Chapter 2  <The Empire State Building Shoplifter>; title: Chapter 3  <Housing Projects Lifestyle>; title: Chapter 4  <Grandma's House>; title: Chapter 5  <Life Not So Usual>; title: Chapter 6  <High School Life in SoHo>; title: Chapter 7  <An Entrepreneurial Classroom>