Femme

About the Book

After becoming a mother at age thirteen, Sasha Tillman grows into a devoted mother while struggling to find true love with a man as she battles her inner feelings of being attracted to women. She suffers abuse at the hands of her live-in boyfriend, but she fights desperately to survive. Staring death in the face on more than one occasion, she escapes, finding true love and security in the hands of a beautiful woman.

About the Author

Sonja Appleberry is a 1986 graduate of Rosa Fort High School and a native of Tunica, Mississippi. She grew up in the impoverished town of Tunica but managed to find security in nearby Memphis, Tennessee. She is the mother of four children, who are all grown. She’s the youngest of five siblings. Her life as a lesbian has been in existence for twenty years. She loves to exercise, write, and meet new people. She has a live-in girlfriend, and they’ve been together for fifteen years. She has worked vigorously in multiple jobs, but she is now working as a specialist in the mobile phone industry. She’s strong willed and is natural in taking on the leading role. Her strong will and determination to rise above the norm led to the writing of her first novel. This fiction novel entitled Femme: A Woman’s Touch is largely true and is based on her story.