Autopsy of a Good Girl
Shameless Essays on Cutting Ties, Keeping Receipts, and Rebuilding a Life on Your Own Terms
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She was six years old the first time she thought about it.
If both her parents were drowning and she could only save one. Which one?
She never decides.
She's the one drowning. Who would save her?
Autopsy of a Good Girl is what happens when a woman finally swims to shore.
In this darkly funny and unflinching collection of personal essays, Cari Fund examines the remains of the good girl she was trained to be: the one who scanned every room for danger, kept every secret, protected the people who were supposed to protect her, and learned early that with her mother there was no winning, only guilt. She traces what that training costs across a lifetime: through marriage, motherhood, illness, estrangement, and the work of building a home when the one you came from made love something you had to survive.
There's no ten-step plan, no tidy resolution, no instruction to forgive. What Cari offers instead is rarer: truth. Her truth, told with dark wit, the kind that only comes from someone who has earned the right to laugh at it.
She's not here to save you. She's here to tell you what happened after she stopped waiting to be saved: what it took to tell the truth, break the cycles she inherited, and build a life that finally felt like her own.
Praise for Autopsy of a Good Girl
“An honest and unflinching look at family, forgiveness, generational trauma, and breaking free.”
“Raw, funny, uncomfortable, and deeply human.”
“Cari Fund shows us what it looks like to find the voice buried beneath everyone else's expectations and have the courage to use it.”
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