Celeste Friedman

"My task, which I am trying to achieve, is to make you hear and feel by the power of the written word - it is, before all, to make you see" - Joseph Conrad. The journal entries on the following pages are my thoughts from my journal - mine alone. None of these words is meant to be seen as fact or fiction; they are simply thoughts recorded in real time. All names in the story and the journal entries have been changed to protect the individuals involved.
Butterfly is a memoir inspired by real events