Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant's Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe

By: Deja Vu Prem

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Synopsis: The powerful story of how an immigrant from the Philippines overcame childhood trauma and an emotionally abusive marriage to find her voice and thriveAs a child in a small barrio in the Philippines, Deja Vu Prem faced neglect and physical abuse. At age seventeen, desperate to escape her situation and claim a better life for herself beyond the mountains of her town, she became a mail-order bride and moved to San Francisco. But the challenges of her childhood didn&’t go away—they merely evolved into the form of her emotionally abusive husband.Cut off from her family and any kind of emotional or financial support, Prem was a prisoner in her own home, unable even to use the phone or check the mail. But she wasn&’t helpless. Relying on her deep faith and the fire within that had always pushed her to achieve, Prem made the brave decision to escape her situation to provide a better life for herself and her two young children.Recounting Prem&’s harrowing yet hopeful journey, Beyond the Mountains is a stirring and moving portrait of one immigrant&’s refusal to be defined as a victim and a testament on finding the strength to forgive in order to reclaim the power that lives within us all.