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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... writing illegible ( if I couldn't read it , no one would ! ) . And Kurt loved me anyway . On the phone was Rudy Maxa , a former newspaper reporter and columnist better known to National Public Radio listeners as " The Savvy Traveler ...
... writing a book about a priest , " he said , " but this book ... well , it sounds like a confessional . " " A what ... writer for Spy when my father was its editor - in - chief . If he said I should read the review , then I would . Kurt ...
... write about this ? About sex and sin and misplaced guilt ? Then came the phrase that I could not forget . Tony Hendra , it read , " spares us no details of his own iniquities as a parent ... . " I reread it a few times . Spares us no ...
... writer's dream , a rave in the New York Times ? First thing the next morning , Memorial Day , I dragged Julia and Charlotte out to get the book . We tried Borders this time , and I went straight to the biography section . That's where I ...