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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... face on the jacket of my dad's memoir . Just a cas- socked body of a monk , shot from the shoulders down , hands folded across what looks like a Bible . They are strong , sinewy hands , and they may belong to a priest or perhaps just a ...
... face you'd know quicker than his name , had grown used to my many foibles . He even helped me laugh at them . He understood that I couldn't cook more than maybe four dishes , and that , if we ever had dinner parties , I'd just buy ...
... face for my daughters . But as I mixed and poured pancakes and talked with them , distracted , I couldn't escape the review , the book , and what , if anything , I should do about it . Of course , I had to read Father Joe . The book ...
A Memoir Jessica Hendra. manager - and I handed him the book face down . He turned it over . " I just read a great review of this book in the New York Times yesterday . " " Really ? " I answered flatly . " Yeah , I was a big fan of the ...