Patricia Peck

Patricia Peck was born the ninth of nine children and married at seventeen. She spent decades in recovery work—through therapy, twelve-step communities, and a faith she describes as spiritual rather than religious—learning to live with a childhood she couldn’t remember in whole pieces, only flashes. In her later decades she was widowed after more than forty years of marriage, buried six siblings, and, along the way, took up skydiving, ziplines, and unplanned travel with the same trust that carried her through recovery. Pivotal Moments is the collection of true stories she wrote by hand, in the order prayer gave her, over several years. It is her first book.