Hillbilly Chess, The Bastard Pawn is a remarkable memoir of resilience and liberation. A gut-wrenching look into a family thriving with dysfunction, dishonesty, and a brutal way of life. Adopted within the family, Peggy survived physical, psychological, murder attempts and incestual molestation, all before she turned nine.
This chain of events sent her into a world that many never return from. From an abused child to a runaway teen and a married 15-year-old girl becoming a mother, she embarked upon a world of drugs, alcohol, and an exotic lifestyle, meeting unique people along the way; she gained friends and strength while embracing hardships.
Still controlled and tortured by the family that should be there for her, she is taken back to her molestation, learning her rapist now has more family victims.
Peggy is passionate when drafting her story sharing her journey unrestrained. Exposing unimaginable upheavals, this heartfelt memoir follows Peggy's entry into this world and into adulthood and her quest to find freedom. And through this dramatic recollection of her unsettling encounters and painful memories, Peggy adds humor and grace to her journey of hardships in discovering the human soul's resistance while liberating herself from a family that was anything but a family.