Ona Gritz is the 2025 Clara Johnson Award winner for Everywhere I Look: A Memoir. Gritz’s tragic and inspiring memoir revels in its authentic first-hand account of this author’s will to examine her beloved sister Angie’s violent death and traumatic childhood, as well as Angie’s risky and questionable choices. As the author wrestles with her own conscience about the disparate childhoods she and Angie experienced, the truth she learns about their family’s dark secrets only make Ona love Angie more. This is a story about the fierceness of sisterly love, and a narrative that makes the reader cheer on Ona’s determination in pursuing painful truths with courage and heart.
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