Chaos

Chaos is a confession in fire and ice, asking simply: what does it take to return to yourself after everything has burned? Chaos is a poetic memoir composed like a southern rock ballad—honest, aching, and unapologetically human. Charity Whan takes readers through the fire and fallout of heartbreak, betrayal, infidelity, and identity reclamation. These poems and prose fragments aren’t just stories of love or lives unraveled. They’re the jagged, glittering aftermath of a woman burning down the life she was told to want, only to rebuild something truer from the ashes. With unflinching honesty and wry defiance, Chaos explores what it means to walk away not just from a marriage, but from silence, shame, and the illusion of control. Told in poems, prose, and original, premium full-color photography, Chaos traces the journey of a woman who stopped performing peace and started chasing truth, no matter the outcome. In the tradition of confessional poets like Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, and the ugly, beautiful truth of poets like Charles Bukowski, Whan writes with guts and grace, holding nothing back. Chaos doesn’t seek neat resolutions. It’s more like a dive bar hymn or a steel guitar sob—raw, twangy, and beautifully broken. View Less