Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

A raw and heartening memoir of one woman’s journey from surviving childhood sexual abuse to becoming one of the most successful stuntwomen in Hollywood. “Piece by piece, the on-site medic tweezes the shards of candy glass from my face.

I don’t mind the stinging.

I don’t flinch.” As an award-winning stuntwoman, Kimberly Shannon Murphy was intimate with pain.

For years, she propelled her body through dangerous spaces—medicating the trauma of her childhood sexual abuse with the adrenaline rush that came from pushing herself to the absolute limit. But as Kimberly learned, no matter how much you suppress your past, it always catches up with you.