With a pen as powerful as her voice, LaWanda crafts books that go beyond storytelling; they are soul excavations, revealing the buried pain, silent screams, and generational patterns that keep communities bound.

Her breakout memoir, “.38 Silencer: Unfired Guns Still Kill,” is a piercing account of being groomed, molested, and impregnated at 13 by a family acquaintance who became a permanent fixture after the abuse was witnessed. This is a harrowing tale of secrets, manipulation, betrayal, and a gigantic cover-up that left a long trail of unspoken trauma. It is both an indictment of silence and a declaration of war against it.