Captain of My Soul: A Memoir - Softcover

Williams, Whitney Gracia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1448620023 ISBN 13: 9781448620029

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

In 2007, I was a young and naive college sophomore. My main concern was being selected to join a prestigious black sorority. Although I was initially apprehensive due to rumors of hazing and pledging, I soon embraced those rumors, wholeheartedly believing that being hazed would make me appreciate membership even more. I was selected with a group of nine other girls, under the assumption that after pre-pledging for a few weeks in the spring of 2008, we would pledge in the fall. Yet, after twenty weeks of pre-pledging--buying food for sorority members, cleaning their houses, attending countless late night "study sessions"--I was no closer to being a member of the sorority. Instead of attending a pinning ceremony in the fall of 2008, I found myself in a hearing against the sorority, relaying exactly what had happened over those twenty weeks. [Captain of My Soul was first published July 24, 2009]

About this title

From the Author

I published this book in July of 2009, a semester after the hearing against the "Epsilon" chapter.

From the Inside Flap

I want to make it clear that I'm no sell out, no bitter bitch who secretly wants to see a certain chapter burned to the ground; no ex sorority prospect turned religious; no victim vilifying my past experiences in hopes of garnering sympathy; nor am I a starving author in search of a paycheck. I'm a writer. That's it. I chose to write this book as an act of closure, a way to express my feelings, and a way to say goodbye to the person I used to be.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1448620023
• ISBN 13: 9781448620029
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300