Broken Author:Angela B. Chrysler ?Poignant and brutally honest, Broken grasped me and didn?t let me go from the very first page.? ? Stanislava D. Kohut ?Chrysler has done the unthinkable, demonstrating the uncanny ability to capture what most would have no concept of understanding.? - Joshua Robertson When William D. Shaw seeks out acclaimed author, Elizabeth, to write her b... more »iography, the recluse grants him twenty-four hours to hear her story. What unfolds is a macabre memoir that teeters on the edge of a psychological thriller. Together, they descend into the bowels of Elizabeth's psyche and examine the trauma victim's past filled with neglect, rape, abuse, torture, and pedophilia. There, Shaw witnesses the results of a human being who has lived her entire life without love, comfort, safety, security, affection, physical contact, family, therapy, or medication. As Shaw tries to understand Elizabeth?s decision to embrace loneliness and isolation, he witnesses Elizabeth?s multiple mental conditions that send her spiraling into the worlds of her psyche, all while toggling the lines of insanity.« less