Description
Ghosts in the Bloodline is a powerful memoir of survival, resilience, and reckoning. Michelle Briggs recounts a childhood shaped by silence and religious hypocrisy, adolescence marked by violence and exploitation, and adulthood lived in a body navigating progressive muscular dystrophy. With lyrical clarity and unflinching honesty, she traces the ways trauma embeds itself across generations—and the courage it takes to interrupt that inheritance.
Briggs writes not to sensationalize pain, but to name it. This memoir is an act of refusal: a refusal to remain quiet, to accept shame, or to disappear. Ghosts in the Bloodline stands as a testament to the power of truth-telling and the possibility of healing, even when survival itself once felt impossible.
About the Author
Michelle Briggs is a survivor. She lives in Lakewood, Washington, with her family. She is a nature lover and lives with Muscular Dystrophy. She has been writing poetry and prose since she was a little girl. Through her writing, Michelle aims to demonstrate the importance of healing.
Michelle is also a woman in recovery. She is a Muscular Dystrophy Advocate. She has attended Crossroads outpatient clinic, Smart Recovery, and Private Industry Council during her life, and has been supported by Planned Parenthood.
Michelle wants to leave a legacy of love in this world.
