How to Cook Your Daughter: A MemoirHarper Collins, 2009 M10 6 - 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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... became my fa- ther's " confessional , " every phrase that he uttered seemed meant to be parsed . Every inflection told a story . I couldn't help myself , and each time I heard his voice , I was reminded of how very complicated our re ...
... became , no matter that he became a best- selling author , he preferred to remain , simply , Tony . Or maybe I'd feel inexplicably thrown by the message he left : Give me a call , will you ? It wasn't so much a question . My dad seldom ...
... became the bright light of her family by earning a place at Girton College , University of Cambridge . Anthony Hendra , my dad , was born the son of a stained - glass maker and raised in rural Hertfordshire , the region in which Jane ...
... became Jessica from The Merchant of Venice . Our names foretold our futures . Kathy spent a childhood as " Thunder Thighs , " a name my father coined for her . She persevered by throwing herself into her studies . Today , she's a doctor ...
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