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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... feel crazy . " Hey Jessie . It's me , Dad , " he'd say . " Give me a call , will you ? " A simple message . But for me , nothing that involved my father was simple . Like the " biography of sorts " that became my fa- ther's ...
... feel inexplicably thrown by the message he left : Give me a call , will you ? It wasn't so much a question . My dad seldom asked anything . It was just an assumed command , as though through charm or force of personality , he could ...
... feel in their daughter having graduated from the best university in England and their mortification over her obvious " condition . " In the end , sometime after my sister's birth , my parents did marry , and they spent their honeymoon ...
... feel like ? Did it smell ? What was it like to be really cold ? What was it like to be bundled up in a big coat , a scarf , and boots as I had seen in the stories at school ? My mother told us we could keep our nighties on . There was ...