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A Memoir Of Faith, Strength, And Transformation
Born from the margins of life, on a dirt road, in an open field, in the early hours of childbirth without a doctor, this is the story of a woman the world did not expect to survive. And who not only survived but also found color in every breaking point.
About the Book
The Color Of Rebirth
Some books are written. This one was lived. The Color of Rebirth is the true memoir of Luci Partela, a woman who was born in a palm-leaf home in the Dominican countryside, raised herself out of poverty, gave birth alone, without a doctor, on a rainy December night, and emerged from every collapse with her faith and her joy completely intact.
This is not a book about a perfect life. It is a book about a real one. The kind where you go to sleep unsure if there will be food tomorrow, and you wake up giving thanks anyway. Where you bring a child into the world on an earthen floor, and you name that moment a miracle. Where you lose your home to a flood and find yourself sleeping in a church, and you pray not with bitterness but with gratitude that you are still breathing.
To read these pages is to walk barefoot through the Dominican countryside. To smell the cooking fire. To hear the river. To feel the morning dew on the long grass that a young girl cut before sunrise. To understand that faith is not something you read about in books; it is a white horse that carries you home, even when you cannot see the road.
Luci Partela writes with the honesty of someone who has nothing left to protect and everything left to give. Her words are not polished or performed. They are raw, tender, and luminously true. They belong to every woman who has ever carried more than anyone could see. Every mother who gave everything she had and then gave more. Every person who has stood at the end of their rope and, somehow, held on.
The Color of Rebirth is the proof that pain does not define destiny. That miracles still arrive, sometimes in American trucks, sometimes in the hands of a stranger, sometimes in the silence after a prayer. And that on the other side of every breaking point, there is always, always, a new color waiting.
“To read these pages is to understand that faith is not abstract — it is a white horse that carries you home.”
Luci Partela
About The Story
What You’ll Discover.
This memoir is a journey through six chapters of extraordinary human experience, from the golden fields of childhood to the darkest nights of survival and finally into the light of a peace that only comes to those who have truly lived. Every page carries the scent of the Dominican countryside and the warmth of a woman who has earned her joy.
- The miracle of a barefoot childhood: where earthen floors, white horses, and open fields shaped a soul that no hardship could silence. Discover the beauty that poverty and nature built inside a little girl who woke up before the sun.
- A faith that refused to surrender: through two miraculous births without medical help, through displacement, illness, and homelessness, Luci’s prayer was never desperate. It was a declaration. “From this day forward, I know that God exists.”
- The flavors, lands, and loves that shaped her: Rice with coconut, pumpkin with allspice, the smell of charcoal, and the sound of a river. Discover how the land of the Dominican Republic became the living language of one woman’s transformation.
“This book was born on the margins of life: on a dirt road, in a field where the wind smelt of grass and promise. May it remind you that pain does not define destiny.”
Luci Partela, Preface to The Color of Rebirth
Inside The Book
Six Chapters. One Extraordinary Life.
Chapter One:
The First Colors: Childhood In The Fields
A girl born at four in the morning into a home of palm leaves and earthen floors. She rode a white horse through fields smelling of grass and wind. She fed her goats before sunrise and found more joy in those hours than most people find in a lifetime. This chapter is a love letter to the childhood that shaped everything.
Chapter TWO:
The Cold of December: A Season Of Suffering
A girl born at four in the morning into a home of palm leaves and earthen floors. She rode a white horse through fields smelling of grass and wind. She fed her goats before sunrise and found more joy in those hours than most people find in a lifetime. This chapter is a love letter to the childhood that shaped everything.
Chapter THREE:
The Miracle of Life: When God Answered
She gave birth, not once but twice, without a hospital, without a doctor, on the margins of civilization. And both times, something inexplicable happened. An American truck arrived. A placenta released. A baby breathed. Luci calls these moments miracles. After reading this chapter, you will too.
Chapter FOUR:
The Virgin of Altagracia:Faith In Desolation
Homeless, with small children, she found shelter in a church. Displaced by a storm that took her home, she turned to the one thing no disaster could take: her faith. The Virgin of Altagracia was not a symbol to Luci; she was a companion in the dark. This chapter is her testimony.
Chapter FIVE:
Faith, Gratitude, and Family: God’s Strength In My Life
Through illness, loss, and the ache of aging, Luci found that gratitude was not a feeling; it was a choice. A daily, deliberate turning toward the light. In this chapter, she offers every hard-won lesson she ever earned: about mothers, about children, about God, and about the quiet dignity of a life lived in faith.
Chapter THREE:
The Flavors of My Life: The Land That Shaped Me
Rice with coconut. Pumpkin with allspice. Charcoal sold on a small donkey. Coconuts harvested from trees she climbed herself. In her final chapter, Luci returns to the land, to the tastes, smells, and textures that were her first teachers. This is the chapter that will make you call your mother and say thank you.
Order The Color Of Rebirth Today
Don’t just read this book. Let it find you where you are: in the middle of your own winter, your own uncertainty, your own prayer. Luci Partela wrote it for you. Every word of it. It’s time to open the page.
Hearts Touched by Rebirth
Reflections on a Life Transformed
I started reading at 10 PM and never put it down. The chapter where Luci gives birth alone on a dirt floor, guided only by faith and her father's voice, made me stop breathing. I have never read anything so raw, so honest, and so ultimately triumphant. This book cracked me open and filled me with something I didn't know I was missing.
Noelle
Reader · New York
As a Latina woman, reading The Color of Rebirth felt like finally hearing the story of every grandmother, every aunt, every mother who endured in silence. Luci gave voice to a generation of women who were told their suffering did not count and proved it was the very foundation of something extraordinary. This book belongs in every home.
Susie
Community Leader · Miami
I have read hundreds of memoirs, but none have stayed with me the way this one has. The moment Luci walks into the Church of the Virgin of Altagracia with nothing, no home, no money, only two children and an open heart, and finds peace anyway... that is the most powerful thing I have ever encountered regarding what faith actually looks like when it's real.
Cathy
Book Club Member · Chicago