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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... 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 spiritual memoirs ever written . A day earlier , I had come home to a phone call after a long and ...
... wasn't sure exactly what my husband had told him , but he had told him something , if not the whole story . Rudy had been in the newspaper and magazine business for years , and at one time- coincidently - he was the Washington writer ...
... wasn't sure he was entirely wrong . When he'd call the house in the years before Father Joe was published , just the sound of his voice on my answering machine started an emotional chain reaction that made me feel crazy . " Hey Jessie ...
... wasn't so much a question . My dad seldom asked anything . It was just an assumed command , as though through charm or force of personality , he could simply will the response he expected , the response he felt he deserved . Years ago ...
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