Tess is living an amazing life only she doesn't even know it. Feeling like an amateur boxer in the ring with Life, she is no match for her opponent. She is intensely unprepared with poor coping skills. Her tool box is nearly empty except for booze, men, and excuses to remain a victim of circumstance.

Does Tess have what it takes to pull from deep within the strength and courage to take action to change her life before she kills herself? What happens to raise her awareness that if it doesn't kill you it can only make you stronger?

Based on true events from the author's life.

"My Name is Not Monkey Girl" serves as a tremendous resource for parents, teachers, grandparents, schools and libraries alike. It was written with the aim of teaching children the importance of unconditional kindness, patience, love, tolerance and compassion. And inspired after a child called Candace a monkey girl. At the time, Candace was approaching her to play.

Sometimes the greatest distance in life can be the distance from your knees to the floor. Join one woman's inspirational journey from rejection and loneliness to the realization that there is a light in the darkness. Follow her as the tiny flicker becomes a flame and brings hope anew. From the valley that became her season of trials and learning, to the mountain top where she shouted victory at the top of her lungs... See how she learned to take one day at a time and learned to give God the glory for all things...no matter how big or small, through the writing that became her testimony, and eventually....the greatest story she has ever told.