THIS IS A PREORDER. Ships September 16
Broken Things Still Bloom is a brave memoir of survival, memory, and becoming. Chanel Robinson’s childhood unfolded in the Gilmor Homes projects of West Baltimore during the 1970s and 80s, a place alive with neighborhood games, soul music, and porch-front friendships—but also shadowed by addiction, violence, and silence. Raised by women who carried their own burdens with grit and faith, Chanel learned to navigate a world where joy and trauma lived side by side.
With unflinching honesty, she recounts the complexities of family—her mother’s charm and eventual descent into addiction, her beloved Uncle Ray’s incarceration and redemption, and the abuse that shattered her innocence. Yet through it all, Chanel found strength in friendship and writing, and purpose in motherhood. Broken Things Still Bloom is the testimony of a girl who endured what she never should have—and the woman she became because of it.
For readers of Ashley C. Ford, Stephanie Foo, and Cupcake Brown, Broken Things Still Bloom is a powerful reminder that even in the harshest soil, something beautiful can grow.
