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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... of getting to New Jersey was proving hard for the valiant VW . The next morning , I woke up to the sound of a choked engine . " For fuck's sake ! " The bus wouldn't start . My father smacked the steering HOW TO COOK YOUR DAUGHTER 17.
... Fucking ... heap ... of ... fucking ... crap ! " My mother sat in the front seat , completely silent , her face tense , her full lips set . We would come to know that posture well . Kathy and I kept quiet too , waiting for my father's ...
... fuck's sake . ( Actually , I was , but Kathy had been born in England ) . I don't want my children pledging ... fucking country ! " He would write a note to the principal of Lebanon Township School , he promised , insisting that ...