Winner of the 2024 Andy Award for Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction A Zibby's Top 10 Book of 2023
A USA Today Best Book of 2023 A USA Today Book Club Pick Foreword by Cameron Diaz Reading
Kimberly Shannon Murphy's searing and vividly told memoir is like watching a gripping work of
cinema verité: each scene demands our attention as the plot moves towards its dramatic
conclusion. A powerful and inspiring story of suffering and shame resilience and redemption.
-Gabor Maté M.D. New York Times bestselling author of The Myth of Normal A raw and heartening
memoir of one woman's journey from surviving childhood sexual abuse to becoming one of the most
successful stuntwomen in Hollywood. Piece by piece the on-site medic tweezes the shards of
candy glass from my face. I don't mind the stinging. I don't flinch. As an award-winning
stuntwoman Kimberly Shannon Murphy was intimate with pain. For years she propelled her body
through dangerous spaces-medicating the trauma of her childhood sexual abuse with the
adrenaline rush that came from pushing herself to the absolute limit. But as Kimberly learned
no matter how much you suppress your past it always catches up with you. In Glimmer Kimberly
details her remarkable journey to the top of her field as a Hollywood stuntwoman for many
A-list celebrities including Cameron Diaz Charlize Theron Angelina Jolie Taylor Swift and
Sandra Bullock while carrying the pain of her childhood of sexual abuse in a family that
refused to acknowledge its reality. In her beautifully written unflinchingly honest memoir
Kimberly reflects on her past and present chronicling her path to recovery and calculating the
long shadow of trauma. Glimmer is the story of one woman's quest to reclaim her life and to
shine a spotlight on the dark topic of intergenerational familial abuse. As Kimberly reveals
being strong isn't about getting your black belt leaping out of four-story buildings or
putting 200-pound stuntmen in chokeholds-it's about waking up every single morning and choosing
to love yourself no matter your history. A heroic and hopeful story of stolen innocence pain
courage and survival Glimmer is an emotional roadmap for others who have suffered abuse and
childhood trauma offering them hope healing and inspiration.
