Still Under the Same Roof

Still Under the Same Roof

A Memoir

N. A. Rowan

What if survival didn’t mean leaving?

In Still Under the Same Roof, a woman recounts her childhood inside a home shaped by domestic violence, fear, and scarcity — and the long, complicated journey toward building something gentler in its place.

Growing up as the youngest child in a family under constant strain, she learns early how to stay quiet, stay alert, and stay safe. Fear becomes a language her body speaks fluently, and survival a skill learned long before it is understood.

This memoir traces a rare and unsettling path: one where healing unfolds not through escape, but through time, accountability, and change — under the same roof where the pain once lived.

Moving through adolescence, love, work, and motherhood, the author explores what it means to break cycles without denying the past that shaped them.

Year: 2026

Printed in: United Kingdom