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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... remember at 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 ...
... remember ? " Rudy didn't laugh . " Well I think you should take a look at it . There's a lead review of your dad's new book . And it's a rave . I mean a rave . You may find it surprising . " I wiped my forehead . " Surprising in what ...
... remember how I clung to my mother , my wide eyes searching the pale , shocked faces . They seemed at least as scared as I was , huddling on the couches as if they were telling secrets - whispering and hushed , as though whatever killed ...
... the sound of breaking glass and the eerie rumble of an earthquake . For me , death by overdose , Disneyland , and earth- quakes summed up L.A. in the late 1960s . I do , however , remember the day we left HOW TO COOK YOUR DAUGHTER | 15.
A Memoir Jessica Hendra. I do , however , remember the day we left Los Angeles in the early summer of 1971 . My mother prodded me gently . “ Jessie , you need to wake up . " It was still dark in the room where Kathy and I slept , and I ...