“Choosing Magic” delivers author Karina Pacific much of the insight and guidance she desperately needed as a child. Born in Mexico to a father never knew and an overworked, reticent mother, Karina’s story unveils a childhood filled with colorful characters, dark secrets of abuse, and a nomadic existence that bounced her all over her native country eventually leading her to the land of opportunity – America. Armed with inherent optimism, a love for Bruce Springsteen, and a blossoming relationship with God, Karina embraced her new life as an immigrant in the States with gusto while meeting angels and heroes who helped her regain faith in humanity and herself. She gained lessons that her silent mother could not provide her. Choosing the magic in joy, goodness, love, kindness, curiosity, and forgiveness, Karina’s touching and funny memoir reveals her journey to reconcile her relationship with God, her mother, and herself by rising above her lonesome childhood and writing her own story-