Chasing Butterflies: The True Story of a Daughter of 9/11 by Ashley Bisman

Filled with vulnerability and raw honesty.

It is with a keen sense of surreal recollection that many glassy eyed folks recall exactly where they were when the Twin Towers came down. I was driving my son to school and the sky was so blue that…  I was on my way into the office and I had just stopped for gas when… Together we share in this horrific event as a part of our collective history, a tragic and painful moment for America. But for Ashley Bisman, 9/11 was so much more than a graphic endless loop on the news cycle. Her father, Jeff Goldflam, was at work that fateful morning on the 101st floor of Tower 1. And for Ashley, that morning―sitting in history class and knowing, KNOWING, that she had just lost her father―is more than a hazy memory tinged with patriotic overtones. How does a teenage girl find her place in the world when her family life has been devastated and become a headline?

Chasing Butterflies by Ashley Bisman is a completely fresh perspective and an intimate look at how one girl struggles to find herself when all is lost. Part memoir and part love letter, this tenderly written biography is filled with vulnerability and raw honesty. The author bares her soul, bravely traveling down an incomprehensibly painful road. Is it possible for a story to be both oppressively heavy and delightfully light at the same time? So full of tragedy and yet filled with triumph? Chasing Butterflies is all of these things and so much more!

Bookstore shelves are brimming with emotional memoirs recounting lives of some remarkable people, but none will cause you to feel as much as Chasing Butterflies. Bisman remarks on her own cynicism, but it is in this frankness that readers can see themselves as humans dealing with an inhumane act and ultimately uncovering the courage and confidence to find happiness. Completely moving without giving itself over to sentimentality, Chasing Butterflies: The True Story of a Daughter of 9/11 is as authentic as it is engrossing. You won’t be able to put this book down, except to grab another box of tissues.

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