Girl in the Spotlight: A Memoir

Publishers Weekly BookLife Editor's Pick

By age 25, Angie Mizzell was a morning news anchor at a top-rated television station. She had married her college sweetheart, and scenes from their wedding day ran on the evening news. She’d achieved everything her mom had wanted for her and what she thought she wanted for herself. But after signing with an agent who promised to take her career to the next level, Angie began to realize that a future in the spotlight would not dim a past filled with childhood trauma and loss. As a television journalist, she’d made a living by exploring and reporting other people’s stories; it was time to examine her own.

Read by the author, “Girl in the Spotlight' is a heartfelt and hopeful coming-of-age story of arriving at a crossroads, getting lost in the darkness, learning to let go, and finding her way back home.

“Bracingly vulnerable and frank. Mizzell’s candid grappling with her own definitions of happiness and success are intimate and rewarding, and she captures longing and listlessness in a refreshing way.” —Publishers Weekly BookLife

'For anyone who dreams big and has the talent it takes to go great places but must dig deep and break the cycles of the past in order to achieve true happiness.” —Meredith Land, news anchor and reporter, NBC TV, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

“‘Girl in the Spotlight’ is nothing less than a how-to on saving your life.” —Nikki Hardin, founder and former publisher, Skirt! magazine