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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... started an emotional chain reaction that made me 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 ...
... started the cheery engine . Kathy and I lay down in the back . I clutched the tattered mass of wool that had morphed from a baby blanket into my most precious possession . I called it , simply , " Mine . " Then I watched out the back ...
... started were guardian an- gels of the desert , waiting under the scorching sun to help people like us . " The Mechanic Angels , " he called them . The VW averaged two breakdowns a state . On highways , on small country roads . Not that ...