99 Girdles on the Wall by Elena Richmond

It
took 35 years for Elena Richmond to extricate herself from a
repressive fundamentalist upbringing, an emotionally disturbed mother
and an alcoholic father. In her late forties, Elena finally fell in
love with her own life. The influence of an exotic aunt, a Buddhist
singing teacher, a psychoanalyst as stubborn as she was, the wisdom
of her music students, and the pilot light of her own spirit, hidden
for decades under depression, helped her find her way.