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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... told him , but he had told him something , if not the whole story . Rudy had been in the newspaper and magazine business for years , and at one time- coincidently - he was the Washington writer for Spy when my father was its editor - in ...
... told the story of how Father Joe helped my dad , now sixty - two , come to terms with all he had done wrong . I had met Father Joe twice before he had died a few years ago , and I knew him to be as my father - and the review - described ...
... told me I had lied . But it was coming from beside me . “ Mommy , doesn't ' relation ' mean someone in your family ? " It was Julia , my six - year - old fact - checker . " Yes , it does mean that . " What else could I say ? " Why did ...
... told a story . I couldn't help myself , and each time I heard his voice , I was reminded of how very complicated our re- lationship had become . One day it might have been the way he said " Dad , " drawing out the sounds and ending ...
... told my mother during one of my more obnoxious moments as a teenager , it seemed a name more suitable for a stripper than for an intellectually gifted and talented girl like my mom , who became the bright light of her family by earning ...