Some children learn lullabies. She learned how to survive.

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In Where Driftwood Howls, Jaclyn Wragg traces a childhood shaped by addiction, instability, and the quiet, suffocating rules of silence. Home is unpredictable. Love arrives tangled with fear. Safety belongs to other families—never quite hers. Growing up means learning to read every room, every mood, every unspoken warning.

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Survival, however, doesn’t end with childhood.

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As Wragg moves into adulthood, the past refuses to remain in the past. Chronic illness settles into her body like a long echo. Relationships strain under patterns inherited long before she had language for them. The cost of endurance surfaces in unexpected ways—through grief, memory, and the slow realization that breaking a family cycle may demand more courage than surviving it ever did.

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Moving between lived moments and hard-won reflection, Wragg examines what it means to rebuild identity when the foundations of belonging were never secure. Her story doesn’t promise easy healing or tidy redemption. Instead, it confronts the complicated terrain of generational trauma, the body’s memory, and the deliberate act of redefining family.

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Driftwood isn’t born weathered. It becomes that way after years of relentless tides.

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Where Driftwood Howls is a memoir about endurance, inheritance, and the quiet rebellion of refusing to pass pain forward—even when the past continues to call.

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Watch the teaser trailer here.