How to Cook Your Daughter: A MemoirHarper Collins, 6. okt 2009 - 288 pages From the daughter of the bestselling author of Father Joe: the poignant and ultimately hopeful memoir of a young girl’s struggle to live a normal childhood in the chaotic seventies, and to overcome sexual abuse by her famous father After more than thirty years of silence, Hendra has decided to reveal the truth. In this poignant memoir, she reveals the full story behind the New York Times article that rocked the world and detailed her father’s crimes. But Jessica’s story is no footnote to her father’s story. No One Was Listening is also the inspiring story of her own journey, and how she was finally able to find healing within, after years of struggling with anorexia, bulimia, and low self-esteem. Set against the backdrop of the chaotic seventies, Hendra’s memoir follows Jessica and her sister Kathy as they strove to make a normal life for themselves amidst the madness, sex, and drug abuse that her parents and their friends—many of the household names in the world of show business—participated in. No One Was Listening reveals the hope and heartache of a young girl who was faced with a loss of innocence at an early age, who faced a slow and painful recovery, and who finally found contentment and peace within. |
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... began- is an unflinching and unsentimental look at a child- Ihood that never was , set in a time and place straight from the pages of the outrageous magazine that her father helped to create . Against the backdrop of the 1970s New York ...
... began this way : " Saints are perhaps always best evoked by sinners . And it would be hard to think of someone more at ease in the world of modern sin than Tony Hendra . " Modern sin ? At ease ? Did the reviewer really have any idea the ...
... began . In 1964 , a year before I was born , my parents immigrated to America - first to the East Coast , a place where my father had visited to test the comedy waters . He and his stand - up comedy partner , Nick Ullett , had met with ...
... began to have a near epileptic fit , his huge blue eyes growing larger and larger the more his anger mounted . Each word , perfectly enunciated in a fine English accent , exploded from his mouth . " God ... damn ... mother ... fucking ...