What are they saying about I’m So Glad You’re Here?

“In I’m So Glad You’re Here: A Memoir, Pamela Gay explores her complicated history with her parents and siblings in an attempt to understand her own life. She takes us on a psychological journey through which she heals her own trauma while discovering compassion and empathy. Gay’s prose is lyrical and moving. I guarantee once you start reading, you won’t be able to put this book down.”

~MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN, American Book Award Winner

“An honest and moving account built upon her father’s mental illness and death and her yearning to be close to her mother. Gay details the repercussions of his illness on her family members and herself, giving us a brave and up close view of how she coped with grief and trauma.”

~ROBERTA ALLEN, The Princess of Herself and The Dreaming Girl

“In this psychological travelogue, Pamela Gay fractures the surface of memory to peer into the depths of a family in all its complex dysfunction: shock treatment, alcoholism, feuding siblings, hissing turkey dinners, home burial, and yes, recipes–a surprising semiotic assemblage masterfully crafted at the crossroads of tragedy and comedy.”

~MINDY LEWIS, Life Inside: A Memoir

“Pamela Gay has written a poignant and powerful story about her journey from PTSD of Abandonment to healing and renewal. Her memoir helps raise awareness about this kind of trauma and dramatically illustrates that while wounds we carry from growing up in fractured families stay with us, they do not have to control us.”

~SUSAN ANDERSON, The Journey from Abandonment to Healing