Product Description

Arlether's debut novel, Rewriting The Script is not just another story about a girl surviving life in the streets. It's much more than that. It is a soul stirring and motivational story of a girl abandoned and abused in the foster care system. After being placed back into a community plagued by crime, drugs, violence, and prostitution she decided to choose a different path. Life was difficult. However, she was determined not just to survive, but to change the course of her family's history. Rewriting The Script is a heartwarming story of desperation, grief and triumph. This courageous girl's story confirms that it is possible for anyone to Rewrite Their Life's Script.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1346054 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 260 pages

Customer Reviews

Choosing Life
Sometimes she ate. Sometimes she slept but rarely alone. Sometimes she was beaten for no apparent reason... and sometimes she even felt a little loved. In Arlether Wilson's memoir, Rewriting the Script, she allows you to travel back to times when her life was barely livable. Back to when she was a five year-old who understood survival.

Arlether endured all types of abuse; verbal, physical, mental, and sexual at an age when most children were starting kindergarten and at the hands of people who were suppose to love and protect her. When calls were made to social services regarding her mother's, Maggie, neglect, Arlether and her brother, Paul, were placed into foster care. The vicious cycle began again when they were returned to Maggie, only to eventually be surrendered back to the system and endure the same mistreatment from others.

Through it all, Arlether maintained hope. She wanted to overcome her past and seemed to find the key when she immersed herself in high school studies and extracurricular activities. She was smart, pretty, popular, and eventually pregnant. Arlether knew that motherhood could not be a part of her equation and had a decision to make. If she kept the baby, how would she care for it? Was it not hard enough fending for herself? How much of a future could she have being a teenage mother with no support and a past like hers?

Rewriting the Script is a story that shows the true meaning of motivation and faith. Wilson takes you deep into her world in a very detailed, very intimate way. It forced me to face the realities of victimized children. Oftentimes when reading memoirs, I get a general picture of what the author went through and I am left to my own feelings about the events. This memoir pushed the envelope and not only painted pictures, but evoked emotions. It is not an easy story to digest and it should not be. The only flaws in Rewriting the Script were the editing and pacing. The most significant editing issue was there were sentences written in multiple points of view. The pacing toward the end of the book seemed a little rushed. I would have loved to know more about her as an adult and mother but was disappointed to quickly find her children graduating from high school. Even so, I recommend Rewriting the Script to individuals who like emotional and empowering reads.

Reviewed by Darnetta Frazier
APOOO BookClub

Praise for Rewriting the Script
Reviewer - Sidne Kingston, United Book Club of America, founder of DivineSisterz of Chicago Christian Book Club

It's unconceivable to the mind, devastating to the heart, and a T-K-O to the body.

Rewriting the Script will have you flipping the script! A page-turner that's guaranteed to make you do two out of three things: Throw the book, rip up the book or cry through the book. If you never read a novel that made you call out Jesus name, prepare yourself, for all there is left to say is "JESUS".

This poignant novel is a heart-breaking riveting life story that begins for a young girl at the tender age of five. Can you imagine a five-year-old saying, "He shoved it deeply down my throat."?
Can you imagine being forced to drink a concoction of dead roaches in some form of liquid? These incidents don't even touch the surface beholding in this novel.

The story grips at the core of your imagination vividly of the inhuman characters responsible for the incessant turmoil of emotional and physical damages penetrating the young girl life. As the author chronicles the story, she depicts the demons that plagued her life in such detail that you feel her fear, anxiety and struggles from within those pages. Several times you will cry out, "no more, dear Lord, she can't take no more, please help her!

From within the author, this novel serves as a living witness that you can survive against the threatening obstacles of life's cruelty that steals your self - worth. This novel serves as a walking testimony of faith and strength defying the "generational curses." This novel offers HOPE. A hope that you will succumb to Rewriting your Script as you hopes it to be, not as life circumstances depicts.

I applaud the author; Arlether Wilson for her courageous willingness to expose her life of violence, sexual abuse, abandonment, devastating deaths, incest, & deceit that are now hurdles of victories.

Once you finish reading this novel, you will be compelled to never complain against another thing in your life.
The novel is shocking, its powerful, its heartfelt and it's A Must READ!!

The rating for Rewriting the Script on a scale of 1-5 is a 5+

Life and it's struggles...........
As I was reading "Rewriting the Script" by Arlether Wilson I would put it down because the things she went through I could feel it. But then I would pick it up because I knew she survived. Afterall I'm reading her book. She tells a the story of her childhood and teenage years. It truly touches the heart and every emontion within you. You see very vividly the struggles that she has endured. As I finished reading and seeing where she is now, this is a true inspiration for all.

Thank you Arlether for sharing!!!!