Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

"Amazing story" according to JT. I've read a lot of celebrity memoirs, but this book is in a class by itself. An engaging, compelling read, if draws you in immediately and keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next. I couldn't recommend it more highly.. Jennifer Thompson-Thalasinos said I got to see her at Lilith Faire and loved her in TSO's The Ghosts of Christmas Eve. I've been a fan of Jewel since she first came on the scene back in the 90's. I got to see her at Lilith Faire and loved her in TSO's The Ghosts of Christmas Eve. I knew she had a hard scrabble life in Alaska and had lived in her van in California for a time, but I didn't know the whole story. Jewel comes from Alaskan pioneers and a dysfunctional family. Her mom was basically part of a cult that Jewel was pulled into. While this was happening her mom squandered all . "The ultimate survivor" according to Delia M. Kal-harp. I must preface this review by saying I really don't know jewel as a singer. Her story however will resonate with those of us who grew up in dysfunctional homes especially girls with fractured mother relationships. She offers her story of resilience, talent and persistence as well as offering survival skills that helped her along the way.

It was requested in the top-10 countdown, something unheard of for an unsigned artist. By age 21, her debut album went multiplatinum. She was 18, homeless, and living out of her car in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of one of her songs. New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood, rise to fame, marriage, and motherhood. Now, with over 30 million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life and the lessons learned from her experience and her music. When Jewel's first album, Pieces of You, topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. Here Jewel reflects on how she survived and how writing songs, poetry, and prose have saved her life many times over. There is so much more to Jewel's story, one complicated by family and financial woes, by crippling fear and insecurity, by parents who forced a child to grow up far too quickl