White Flag (Unabridged‪)‬

Cheryl said many times that “I’m done with that life, I’ll never go back to it.” But she did.

When her Aunt Judy finds her in jail after two years of thinking she might be dead, she hopes and prays this is a second chance for her niece. Her sensitive, funny, bookworm niece. Her big sister’s eldest daughter, who has since died. And through writing White Flag, best-selling author Judy L. Mandel finds that it didn’t start with Cheryl, but that the tentacles of trauma explored in her first book Replacement Child have grabbed hold of her niece too. She struggles with being powerless to help Cheryl, and she discovers that transgenerational trauma and epigenetics may have started this avalanche of pain. She wonders why some people can recover from addiction, and others cannot. Why are some able to raise their white flag of surrender?