Camille is born on the day of a funeral. After that, nothing stops.

Loss comes first. Then something else. Then more. It finds her where she should be safe — at school, at home, in her own body. And as she grows, it doesn’t ease. It changes shape.

What begins as grief becomes something harder to name. Something that takes, again and again — her trust, her voice, her sense of who she is. Still, she keeps going.

The Promise of Greatness is a literary memoir of survival told with searing honesty and structural daring — and the quiet return of a thought that refuses to disappear:

“I’m going to be great again.”