Book Review : The Currency of Grit

Actress Drew Barrymore once said ‘Being a parent means loving your child more than you’ve ever loved yourself’. Most of us get the wholesale depth of the wisdom stored in those thirteen words but unfortunately for many, they fall on tough, infertile and stony ground. Many parents simply do not do right by their children, some because they are not emotionally equipped to and others because they wear narcissism and selfishness like badges of honour.

For Dr. Kesha Christie, having good parents was not the cards life dealt her. Abuse and abandonment saturated her childhood and shaped the mindset of the child who would grow into the woman. Fortunately and I daresay miraculously, the havoc of a traumatic childhood did not devalue the woman she would become, nor did it define her legacy, her life nor her ability to love. Instead, it scaffolded her backbone, fueled her dogged determination to succeed academically and financially and eventually taught her how to be better and not bitter

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