How does it feel to live in a household with two loving parents? Or in a home embedded with abuse and fear? How does it feel to not know your father? Or to crave time and affection from your mother? What does it feel like to hate? To love? To lose? For this circle of friends -- comprised of Paris, Lonnie, CoCo, Rachel, and Shanice -- the answers are soul-stirring. My Soul Fainted Within Me is a startling debut novel that takes readers, young and old, on a decade-long journey like no other.