LOTS TO FEEL –
April 10, 2026 – In a world where many suffer silently, Can You See Me? Is There Anyone There? breaks that silence with courage, compassion, and unfiltered truth. In this deeply personal memoir, Latoya Pemberton shares her journey through childhood abuse, teen motherhood, addiction, incarceration, and ultimately, spiritual awakening and recovery.
From the opening pages, readers are drawn into a little girl’s desperate longing to be seen, loved, and protected. What unfolds is not just a story of survival, but an intimate exploration of what happens when a child grows up without safety, when pain becomes normal, and when the need to be chosen shapes every decision.
Pemberton recounts her early years marked by physical abuse at the hands of caregivers, experiences that planted seeds of shame and invisibility. That unhealed pain carried into adolescence, leading to early motherhood and devastating separation from her daughter. As trauma compounded, so did her attempts to escape it.
The memoir does not shy away from the darkest chapters. Readers witness her descent into exotic dancing, drug addiction, and life-threatening situations that nearly cost her everything. Her recounting of being stabbed while still chasing her next high is both shocking and heartbreaking. Yet even in these moments, Pemberton’s voice carries clarity. Addiction, she reveals, was never about recklessness. It was about relief.
