Praise for UNASSISTED
“Erin is a tremendous storyteller. Her memoir is compelling, her writing lyrical, almost as if we are caught in a dream that is her struggle to right size her life, when faced with one of the greatest challenges of her career. As we read about the enchantment of her early childhood, the pain of her adolescence and the midlife events that bring forth all the things that she never resolved, we stagger along with her, and we maintain hope. In the end, this book is about finding home, where we can not only survive, but thrive.”
- Tom Hallman Jr., Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author
“This memoir is a reflection on living a fully engaged and an intentional life. Erin Stammer’s authentic, empowered voice takes the reader on a literary journey where we find love and joy in the most unexpected places and most difficult situations. Full of emotional truths and hard-won wisdom, resilience and grace, Unassisted is a perfect book club book.”
- Ruth Wariner, bestselling author of The Sound of Gravel
"Home is not always a place of love and nurture; often it's a place where we are uncertain and wary. And similar to Erin's story, many of us find a way to overcome, heal, and forgive. In Unassisted, readers are taken on a journey of a woman who despite the episodic dysfunction of her childhood, became the strong woman she was born to be."
—Stephanie Plymale, author of American Daughter, CEO of Heritage School of Interior Design