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Book Spotlight: Lipstick on a Pig: A Memoir by Rebecca Butt 

Welcome to the TRB Lounge. Today, we are featuring author Rebecca Butt  for her latest release, Lipstick on a Pig: A Memoir.

Lipstick on a Pig: A Memoir

Book: Lipstick on a Pig: A Memoir
Author: Rebecca Butt
Publication date: June 30, 2023
Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction
Page Count: 276 pages
Publisher: Bowker


About the Book

Candid and poignant, humorous and heart-wrenching, in nomadic fashion, the directionless Butt Family chaotically relocated throughout the city of Laconia, New Hampshire, like a ship, adrift and lost at sea without a captain.

Encumbered by night terrors, hauntings, and scraps of memories that spoke to a cruelty beyond her mother, Becky sneakily devoured her way into young adulthood and developed a crippling, yet all too comforting, binge-eating disorder.

Morbidly obese, visited often by a seething presence, and drowning under the smothering symptoms of childhood trauma, Becky is sure she’s the defective link in her broken family-until her ghost relative provides her a life jacket of hope that may just keep her afloat.

You can find Lipstick on a Pig here:
Amazon | Goodreads


About The Author

Rebecca Butt

As a young child, Rebecca escaped into books, and wrote happy stories accompanied by bright and cheerful pictures with houses, trees, flowers, and birds,that were a contradiction to her real-life circumstances. Her childhood love for reading and writing endured, and she eventualy wrote and published her short stories and poetry in a literary journal in college. Lipstick on a Pig is her lengthiest writing endeavor.
A licensed Speech Language Pathologist with a master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders, she is the Director of Special Education for a school district in New Hampshire, where she resides.


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