My Grandfather’s Daughter: 

A Memoir of Becoming

 

"My grandfather always wanted me."

 

So begins Lisa M. Lee's stunning memoir, a lyrical and unflinching exploration of love, loss, and the universal laws that govern us all.

 

Born to a mother who did not want her, Lisa found refuge in the quiet, unwavering love of her grandfather, Oscar. While her childhood was marked by abuse and betrayal—by the family that turned away, the town that looked away, and the grandfather whose name she will not speak—Oscar was the one constant. He saw her. He loved her. He chose her, again and again, without condition or expectation.

 

But love alone could not protect her. When Lisa finally told the truth about what had been done to her, the wall between her and her grandfather collapsed—and so did the family around them. "We survived it and so will you," her aunt said, revealing the generations of silence that had enabled the abuse to continue.

 

Oscar wept. And then he taught her how to live, how to love.

 

Structured around the twelve universal laws—from Karma to Relativity, from Thermodynamics to the Law of Attraction—My Grandfather's Daughter traces Lisa's journey from broken child to whole woman. It follows her through a marriage to the opposite of everything Oscar represented, into motherhood where she finally understood the depth of her grandfather's love, and through the devastating loss when Oscar was murdered by an intoxicated driver on a beautiful autumn day.

 

In the years that followed, Lisa discovered that love does not end. It only changes form. When she calls out to Oscar, a Cooper's Hawk appears within hours—every single time. In letting go, she found him more. In becoming, she discovered she had always been whole.

 

My Grandfather's Daughter is for anyone who has survived the unsurvivable. For anyone who has been told their truth was too much, their pain too big, their voice too loud. For anyone who has lost someone they could not imagine living without. For anyone who needs to believe that love is stronger than death, that energy cannot be destroyed, that we are not defined by what happened to us but by what—and who—we choose to become.

 

Part memoir, part spiritual exploration, part love letter to the man who saved her, this book will break your heart and put it back together, leaving you with the profound and comforting truth: you are already whole. You have always been whole. You will always be whole.

 

And somewhere, in whatever form energy takes when it leaves the body, those who love you are still watching. Still waiting. Still whispering, as Oscar whispered to Lisa:

 

There's my sugar girl.