A memoir of trauma, awakening, and resilience.

Age 10. Shy. Unseen. Already living as Epsilon."

Melanie Marloe — a nurse and former Boston Combat Zone stripper — shares her extraordinary journey from trauma and addiction to awakening and authorship in her memoir, Epsilon: The Girl Who Could Not Be Erased.

ABOUT THE BOOK

“Look at you all glowy.”----Facebook

Epsilon: The Girl Who Could Not Be Erased is the story of a child who was told she was a mistake—and how she refused to disappear.

From a chaotic childhood with a mentally ill mother and an alcoholic father, Melanie Marloe carried the wound of insignificance into adulthood. She stripped in Boston’s Combat Zone, searched for love in dangerous places, and numbed her pain with alcohol for forty years. Yet even in the darkest moments, flickers of light broke through: kindness from strangers, survival against the odds, a patient who once told her, “You’ve got a light shining behind you.”

This is a memoir about what it means to be seen, even when the world tells you you’re negligible. About the strength to choose survival when everything points toward erasure. And about the truth that the light we long for has been with us all along.

“Healing, service, redemption”

“Survival, power, performance”