I Never Saw My Mother's Face

Born less than a year before tragedy struck, a boy enters the world already marked by loss. His mother dies after giving birth to his baby sister-and four days later, that sister is gone as well. What follows is a childhood defined by instability, hunger, and the quiet ache of being unwanted. Passed from one struggling household to another, he learns to read danger in footsteps, to stay small in unsafe rooms, and to survive in places where love is scarce and childhood is brief.

But even in the harshest years, something fragile endures: a promise he makes to himself in silence. If I ever have a family, they will never feel unloved.

I Never Saw My Mother's Face traces a life shaped by absence yet driven by an unyielding desire to build something different. From muddy provincial roads to the uncertainties of migration, from early labour to marriage, fatherhood, and eventually becoming a writer, this memoir follows a man who refuses to let the past define the future he creates.

Told with clarity, restraint, and deep emotional honesty, this is a story about the long shadow of childhood, the cost of survival, and the quiet, stubborn hope that love can be learned-even by those who never received it. It is a testament to resilience, to the families we build, and to the possibility of healing across generations.

Tender, haunting, and profoundly human, I Never Saw My Mother's Face is not only a story about what was taken, but about what can still be created: belonging, purpose, and a life no longer ruled by the wounds of the beginning.