Thirty-nine year old ZoDonia "Zoe" Marshall is a single mother of seventeen year old ZeDaniel "Ze" Marshall. To him, she is a strong-tower but she has had her share of ups and downs. At a young age, Zoe was told that she would never amount to anything. And to make matters worst, those that were telling her this, insured that she'd never reach the top. But Zoe was determined. She was going to find and define the very essence of herself and nothing and no one was going to stop her. If, in doing so, meant leaving family behind then that's the way it was going to be. Her decisions proved to be a test of will but for her giving up was not an option. Now at a time where she is down on her luck, after suffering from complications with her illness and losing her job, she finds herself smoking cigarettes (one of the things that she'd always said she'd never do) and contemplating going back home. However, for her, going back was going to be a challenge. During her trip back, she is in full hope that she could capture that ever elusive mother-daughter relationship that she never had with her now ailing mother, all the while hoping to bring closure to her own hurting heart. But once she's there, things seems to be anything except what she wanted or expected them to be. What she is about to learn is enough to leave her more heartbroken than before, but the answers that she is about to receive just might leave her forever broken. From the publishers of D'Lite Publications Ink. and Novelist Donetha Polite, comes a full-length novel based on a true story and inspired by actual events: Family: The Painful Truth. Starring: ZoDonia & ZeDaniel Marshall