Victory Is My Name, Book One: the Burning Barrel

By Victoria Chames

More than a memoir, Victory Is My Name is about unlearning the untruths we are taught as children “for our own good” that forbid us to be who we are, and can hold us hostage for life unless we find our own way to the truth. The road is not easy, but once you know the truth, it really can make you free.

Victory is bitter and sweet, tragic and joyful, sometimes brutally real, but always stubbornly hopeful. Like a Huckleberry Finn born female, Vickie is abused when she’s young and grows up with some baggage, but never quite loses that “maybe I can” spirit., and achieves some unlikely and extraordinary things, not by luck, but by grit and heart and a remarkably different kind of courage. It's not about being a hero, it's about taking the life you get, and making it count.