In documenting her family's escape from the 1988-90 killings of Armenians in Baku, Azerbaijan, Liyah shares her childhood perspective of the violence and chaos experienced during her most formative years. Liyah gives a vivid account of life during the Armenian Genocide as well as her family's deep roots living the generational genocide experience. Based around journal entries written by her at a young age, she describes learning English in America and her personal experience of how becoming a refugee shaped her. She shares of her family's compounding trauma of adjusting to a new life in a new country. Liyah takes the reader into her most private and personal space along with her struggle with identity, assimilation and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her loss of innocence, longing for a childhood and survivor's guilt is conveyed through her emotional reflection about the psychology, mentality and emotions after genocide. We meet a child who finds safety in detachment from everything around her and finds peace in the stillness and liminal space of her pending identity as an adolescent. The memoir readers a glimpse of life in America and what it means to be a newcomer. On the other side of the American Dream, we learn about the mental health struggles of those arriving from war and violent conflicts and many are expected to assimilate with little or no support. This memoir captures life's inability to break us when a person is imbued with an unconditional spirit of gratitude, of humble beginnings and how the bond of pain and love between a family of refugees who are determined to survive together can never be broken. Liyah brings awareness to the mental health of genocide survivors, refugees and children of war - and shows that adoptive communities and resettlement programs can rescue the 'whole' human and not only reserve them as resources for cheap labor exploitation. In other words, the compassionate response which can serve in addressing the mental. emotional and psychological traumas of people who have suffered from torture, rape and violent crimes against humanity. Her journal entries and reflections are written in her own words (language learning-in-progress style) honoring her own process and progress with grasping the English language between the age of 10 and 18, when she graduated High School.