A memoir of depression, generational trauma, and the sheer stubbornness of survival — and everything booksellers need to stock it.
"I booked a one-way trip to Tahiti I never meant to come back from. Groove is the story of why I came back."
From the outside, her life looked successful — a senior engineer at a major tech company, a loving family, a home far from where she started. Inside, she was being consumed by a depression no one around her could see.
Groove is part confession, part atonement, part love letter to the sheer stubbornness of survival. A raw and fiercely honest account of moving through the world — the wounds we inherit, the ruts we get stuck in, and the groove we learn to move in. Unflinching, funny at the very edge of grief, and ultimately a survivor's account that leaves readers lighter than it found them.
"The pictures were real. I just wasn't in any of them anymore."
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Flips the stereotype — a high-achiever no one knew was struggling. The kind of recognition readers hand to a friend.
A debut memoir from a Black woman in STEM — intimate, culturally rooted, and sharp.
Honest about suicide and inherited pain, but it's a book about staying — and the way back.
108 pages with original etching-style illustrations — a book made to be held and passed along.
Groove is illustrated throughout with original full-page artwork — one image for each chapter, and the place that shaped the journey.
Original illustrations by Hendrik Gericke · High-resolution art available on request.