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Signed copy of Hangovers & Hallelujahs: musings from an untamed life by Ashton Loren Ryan.
Hangovers & Hallelujahs is a collection of poetry and reflections from a woman who chose to live honestly, even when it cost her comfort.
These pages hold fragments of a lived life, family fractures and inherited silences, jailhouse confessions and hard-earned reckonings, loves lost and the quiet aftermath of staying too long or leaving too late.
For years, I believed many of these words had been burned, literally and also lost to shame, to time, to versions of myself I no longer recognized. But when they resurfaced, I understood something, they had survived for a reason. And what survives asks to be shared.
This is not a polished memoir.
It is not redemption packaged neatly.
It is poetry and prose born from complicated bloodlines, restless love, mistakes that leave marks and the stubborn will to keep walking anyway.
Inside, you’ll find writing that touches on:
• Family wounds and generational tension
• Jailhouse reflections and hard truths
• Love that saved and love that shattered
• Faith questioned and rediscovered
• The thin space between leaving and staying
Written in a voice that is embodied, unfiltered and quietly fierce, this collection honors the parts of life we are often told to hide. This book is for those who know that softness and steel can live in the same body.
These are the words that remained.
Signed copy of Hangovers & Hallelujahs: musings from an untamed life by Ashton Loren Ryan.
Hangovers & Hallelujahs is a collection of poetry and reflections from a woman who chose to live honestly, even when it cost her comfort.
These pages hold fragments of a lived life, family fractures and inherited silences, jailhouse confessions and hard-earned reckonings, loves lost and the quiet aftermath of staying too long or leaving too late.
For years, I believed many of these words had been burned, literally and also lost to shame, to time, to versions of myself I no longer recognized. But when they resurfaced, I understood something, they had survived for a reason. And what survives asks to be shared.
This is not a polished memoir.
It is not redemption packaged neatly.
It is poetry and prose born from complicated bloodlines, restless love, mistakes that leave marks and the stubborn will to keep walking anyway.
Inside, you’ll find writing that touches on:
• Family wounds and generational tension
• Jailhouse reflections and hard truths
• Love that saved and love that shattered
• Faith questioned and rediscovered
• The thin space between leaving and staying
Written in a voice that is embodied, unfiltered and quietly fierce, this collection honors the parts of life we are often told to hide. This book is for those who know that softness and steel can live in the same body.
These are the words that remained.