How to cook your daughter : a memoir
In 2004, Tony Hendra's memoir Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. But there was a glaring omission in his supposed tell-all confessional: the sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica. After more than thirty years of silence, Jessica faced a harrowing choice. In this book, she reveals how she came to the decision to publicly confront her father, sacrificing any hope of reconciling with him and setting into motion a New York Times investigation that shocked the literary world when it broke the story of abuse. But Jessica's account is neither a minor footnote nor an angry response to her dad's bestseller. How to Cook Your Daughter -- titled after a satirical piece her father wrote only a few months before the abuse began -- is an unflinching and unsentimental look at a childhood that never was, set in a time and place straight from the pages of the outrageous magazine that her father helped to create
collective biographies
1 online resource (viii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780061974816, 9780062906915, 0061974811, 0062906917
824700538
May 2004
Red Mill Road
The Brownies
Pinkeye
Lemmings
June 2004
Krisztina
Punk
The fire escape
June 2004
Phebe's
Mom
Celia's
Song of Solomon
June 2004
Epilogue