The Olive Picker: A Memoir
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Kathryn Brettell's memoir follows her life from a childhood shaped by abuse, which wore away her sense of self, through a marriage that brought more harm than comfort, to a turning point that changed the course of her life. The book is built around a frightening attack that tests the composure and quick thinking of a nurse, and it moves between the past and that crisis to show how she came through.
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The account is candid about hardship and about the choices that followed it. It asks how a person keeps going once the worst has already happened, and it returns often to endurance and to the slow rebuilding of a life.
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