Papa Was A Rolling Stone: A Daughter's Journey to Forgiveness captures the pains of hundreds of thousands of daughters especially in Black America with absent fathers. Prof. Lee E. Meadows of Walsh College describes it as "a stunningly vivid account of a parental void that should resonate with readers" while Oliver J. Johnson, PhD, says it "reminds us of the pain that is generated when fathers are absent and invisible." Author Robin Wright King lived through such pain while growing up without her father in Detroit Michigan but she was able to forgive her father and move on with her life as a loving mother of two, a successful entrepreneur and lecturer.