Writers and Stories

*Colorable* is more than a book. It's a real journey — lived by Chris Barbato — inside a Shiite Islamic country where everything was different. The language. The silence. The stares. The rules. The fear. The faith.
She faced cultural, emotional, and spiritual barriers most people can't imagine. Survival was the default. But she chose more — she chose to live, to rebuild, to root herself in a place no one would expect to grow.
This book is a raw, soulful, and powerful account of:
- The clash with a foreign culture
- Unexpected friendships that saved her spirit
- Building a spiritual family far from home
- Resilience as the only path forward
- And the deep truth that, even in a dead-end, there’s always a secret exit
With courage and vulnerability, Chris turns her story into an unintentional guide to resilience, faith, and inner transformation. And she proves — line by line — that life is never just black and white... life is colorable.