Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose

by Sonya Curry

Overview

Sonya Curry chronicles the never-before-shared story of raising her children and her lifelong devotion to education, family, and faith.

Sonya Curry’s journey, like those of her extraordinary sons and daughter, was filled with defeats and hard-fought victories, but hers took place out of the limelight, without the eyes of the world watching, cheering, or drawing inspiration from her example. Until now.

In this inspiring memoir, Sonya tells her story for the first time, beginning with her childhood in rural Virginia and moving through the peaks and valleys of an incredible life—from raising her immensely gifted but sometimes headstrong children, to becoming an educator and founding a Montessori school, to discovering a profound, life sustaining connection to God and faith.

Fierce Love is a wise and illuminating story of family, faith, and purpose. With something for everyone—seekers, sports fans, people of faith, lovers of memoir— it’s one strong mother’s gift to all who wonder how, where, and whether they’ll find the strength.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063051485
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/03/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	669,644
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

SONYA CURRY is an entrepreneur, educator, and founder of the Christian Montessori School of Lake Norman in North Carolina. She is the mother of Stephen and Seth Curry and Sydel Curry-Lee. A member of the NBA Mom’s Organization, Sonya often speaks of her experiences as a mother, educator, and Christian, sharing her testimony about the love of Christ, parenting, and education.

Table of Contents

1 Bad Mother 1

2 Teaching Philip to Read 15

3 I Think I Killed Him 23

4 The River 33

5 Run 39

6 Choice 51

7 To a Degree 71

8 Who Does That? 81

9 Follow the Child 97

10 The Big Machine 105

11 Save Me 125

12 Saved 137

13 The Gatekeeper 144

14 God's Time 158

15 I Can Do All Things 163

16 We Don't Date, We Mate 179

17 Live Your Life 190

18 Bar Mitzvah 211

19 Hero of My Own Story 216

20 I'll Take Him Just the Way He Is 250

21 Respect 260

22 Moving Day 275

23 No More Septembers 284

24 The Art of Living 297

Acknowledgments 315

About the Author 319

Editorial Reviews

2022-03-31
A memoir from the resolute matriarch of a tightknit, dynamic family.

In her debut, the author chronicles how her life of faith has buoyed her through good times and bad, including raising three children and founding a Montessori school. Curry begins with an episode of tough love: Her 14-year-old daughter, Sydel, pleads with her to attend a house party, but the house rules stand firm against it. It’s a grounding moment in a book that demonstrates the author’s resolve to do what’s right. She backtracks to her early years living in poverty in a cramped trailer with a funny yet tough, “badass” mother. Though they were harassed by a roving band of KKK members, her family found strength in their staunch Christian faith and in Curry’s devotion to a budding talent in sports. While in college at Virginia Tech in the early 1980s, she began dating then-basketball hopeful Dell Curry. When Dell was drafted by the Utah Jazz in 1986, their long-distance relationship continued, and she gave birth to her son Stephen in 1988. After marriage, two more children broadened the family. (Both Steph and his younger brother, Seth, are in the middle of successful NBA careers, and Steph is the all-time leader in three-point field goals made.) With bracing honesty and a wry sense of humor, the author details her semistructured “parenting on the fly” formula, and she articulates her school’s unique curriculum of free-form education and Christianity. Throughout, the author is clear about her religious beliefs, quoting Scripture for direction and purpose and showing how her faith has informed all her decisions, from shepherding her sons’ athletic ambitions to retiring from the school she founded. Though Curry and her family have faced challenges in recent years, the book ends in 2017.

Strength and candor mark this brisk, heartfelt story of faith, resilience, and, of course, basketball.

Kirkus Reviews

A memoir from the resolute matriarch of a tightknit, dynamic family…..Strength and candor mark this brisk, heartfelt story of faith, resilience, and, of course, basketball.” — Kirkus Reviews

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