How did i get here? a question that cleo jean-baptiste is constantly asking herself. born is the tale of a woman's journey through life. as she sits there reliving her story to her editor she does not know that she is in grave danger. she thinks back to a much simpler time. in 1975 she is a twenty-one year old college student in paris, france. with her cynical attitude, she learns to live and open up even if it's a slow process. she falls in love but someone from her past comes back and it changes everything. the book has five parts and each part is a year of her life. it uncovers the mistakes that she has made. it's a tale of an introverted girl who grows up without her mother and struggles to accept it but she finds herself making the same mistakes she made.