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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... parents had a fifth - floor walk - up apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan . Not ones for baby - naming books , my parents turned to the pages of the Collected Works of Shakespeare , just as they 14 JESSICA HENDRA.
... floor of the living room . Kathy and I were to have one of the upstairs rooms as our bed- room . It had two windows : one that overlooked the back lawn and another that gave us a view over the road and into the maple and oak trees that ...
... floor . He seemed a world away , staring off into the field , deadly serious as he searched for a decent joke . His fingers would leave the typewriter and begin tapping on the wooden desk . First the thumb . Then the index finger . Then ...
... floor nearby , trying to roll my fingers the same way . But my fingers were too small , too light , and my barely au- dible taps lacked authority , style . When he was finished writing for the day , Daddy turned off his typewriter ...
... having in a few weeks . The mats were made by weaving rows of plastic strips , each a different color , into a large rectangle . I was invited to sit on the floor as part of the Brownies ' circle HOW TO COOK YOUR DAUGHTER 31.