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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... sister had gone from Kathy to Katherine and my mother from Judy to Judith . When my father left us , we had , without a single word between us , shed the names we knew when my family lived together , as if signaling some metamorphosis ...
A Memoir Jessica Hendra. mother , my sister , and me . But not my father . Responsibility was never his strong suit , and only my grandmother , his brother , and his two sis- ters ever called him by his Christian name , Anthony . To the ...
... sister , Kathy , in the sun , to go home to Laurel Canyon . But I had to stay here with adults who seem as bewildered as me . And I was terrified : Would Heroin get me too ? It's not the most ideal of childhood memories . But you have ...
... sisters to send letters to the Pope recommending one Anthony Christopher Hendra for sainthood . The Pope failed to respond . My father , like my mother , was tremendously gifted intellectually . To his family's surprise ( but no one ...
... sister , Katherine- grows . She is beautiful , her long hair untidily looped in a Bronte - like bun , a concession to the formality of the occasion . My grandparents stand awkwardly on either side of her : my grandfather in his gray Sun ...