In the Oven with the Door Halfway open

As a young girl growing up in the New Orleans projects, author Ausi dreamedwould marry, have a family, live in a beautiful home, and own luxurious cars. She wanted that fairy tale. That dream came true. She married, and they builta home and had cars and money. But she didn t dream she d experience anunhappy, difficult, and abusive marriage. In In the Oven with the Door Halfway Open, Ausi shares the story of hermarriage to a man ten years older than she and their tumultuous life together,telling how she held onto hope, her dreams of a better future, and her Bible. This memoir chronicles the story of a fighter and a survivor, a woman whosurvived both Hurricane Katrina and domestic abuse. Throughout her journey,she learned she couldn t erase the past, but she could create a future. In the end,she said I do to God who gave her many blessings and miracles