Allison Moorer, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, wrote her memoir as a way to reckon with the moment in which her life and that of her sister, fellow musician Shelby Lynne Moorer, was shattered.

Moorer and her older sister, singer Shelby Lynne, were left to live with their aunt and uncle. For a long time, Moorer avoided talking publicly about the incident. She wrote the song "Cold, Cold Earth ...