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Heart Don't Break

A Memoir by Briaca Duesette

A story of family, imagination, loss and becoming.

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THE BOOK

Before the heartbreak, there was love.

Heart Don't Break is a memoir about the people, memories, losses and choices that shaped one woman's life — told through the eyes of the little girl she once was.

It begins with a red Barbie car on a fifth birthday. It ends with a woman who finally understands everything that lived between the moments she thought she knew.

"I didn't know it yet, but this wouldn't be the last time I would ask my heart to survive something it never saw coming."

FROM THE MEMOIR

"At five, you don't understand what it means for a woman to carry three daughters, work, bills, responsibilities, other people's needs and the aftermath of finally getting free.

You just think that's how grown-ups look sometimes.

I wanted to go to the park. My mother didn't have the energy to take me.

And at five, that was the entire story.

Years later, I would understand everything that lived between those two sentences."

— Briaca Duesette, Heart Don't Break

THE AUTHOR

Briaca Duesette

Storyteller

Entrepreneur

Mother

World-Builder

Briaca Duesette is a storyteller, creative entrepreneur, mother and lifelong world-builder. Long before she understood that imagination could become a career, she was the little girl who played with dolls long after everyone else had stopped.

"I used to create worlds because I loved them. Eventually, I realized I was also creating places where I could decide what happened next."

WHY THIS BOOK

This book is about more than what broke.

Every family carries secrets. Every child carries loss. And every woman carries the long, quiet distance between who she was and who she finally becomes. This memoir is for anyone still making that journey.

FRAGMENTS FROM HEART DON'T BREAK

An ongoing series of essays, excerpts and stories from the memoir

MY FIRST MEMORY IS RED.

A birthday. A little red car. The beginning of everything.

THE LITTLE SISTER

What it means to grow up watching the women ahead of you.

THE WOMEN WHO RAISED ME

On the people who shaped a life before she understood what shaping meant.

THE WORLDS I BUILT

Imagination as survival. Play as prophecy.

WHEN SOMEBODY DIDN'T COME BACK

The moment childhood ends and something else begins.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT HEARTS NOW

Everything the little girl couldn't have known. Everything the woman had to learn.

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HEART DON'T BREAK · A Memoir by Briaca Duesette

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