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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... never was , set in a time and place straight from the pages of the outrageous magazine that her father helped to create . Against the backdrop of the 1970s New York comedy scene , the memoir traces Jessica's journey from a lost and ...
... never bought a hair dryer because , for some reason , I could never quite figure out how to use it effectively . He accepted that , at thirty - nine , I still struggled knowing my right hand from my left , and that my dyslexia made it ...
... never his strong suit , and only my grandmother , his brother , and his two sis- ters ever called him by his Christian name , Anthony . To the world , and no matter how old he became , no matter that he became a best- selling author ...
... never see again . My father was loading bags into the Volkswagen bus . He moved quickly and , despite being in one of his " heavy stages , " looked strong as he hefted the bags . The bus was white , with brown - and - red paisley ...
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