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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... least three or four pictures of him playing a priest or a cardinal , or even the Pope . But this book wasn't billed as a parody . In fact , it had just been de- scribed by the nation's most influential newspaper as one of the great- est ...
... least , that's how Star Trek.com describes it . Now , a much tougher role awaited me . I had to put on a happy face for my daughters . But as I mixed and poured pancakes and talked with them , distracted , I couldn't escape the review ...
... least you can sleep tonight without it burning a hole in your bedside table , Jess . " But I was up for hours anyway . I simply couldn't shake that phrase : " Tony Hendra spares us no details of his own iniquities as a parent . " I ...
... least tamed it . I'd pulled my life to- gether . And now , like a complicated cancer , those feelings were back . For that , for how I felt at that moment at Borders and in the weeks that followed , my father would call me a victim , a ...
... least as scared as I was , huddling on the couches as if they were telling secrets - whispering and hushed , as though whatever killed their friend lurked just around the corner . They said he'd " OD'd , ” but of course , that meant ...