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assimbya's review
2.0
Danica provides some valuable insights into her own process of healing from CSA, but in general this book is disorganized, repetitive, and difficult to read. Fascinating, though to read about her peculiar historical position, being part of an early wave of abuse memoirs, receiving a really immediate response to her work in ways that I doubt would quite be visible now.
The sections on her mother, who was complicit in her father's abuse and also a perpetrator of physical and emotional abuse herself, made me somewhat uncomfortable. These discussions, about colluding mothers, are always fraught and difficult. While it is of course Danica's prerogative not to blame her own mother if she chooses to, I found myself troubled at the generalizing of this.There aren't easy answers.
The sections on her mother, who was complicit in her father's abuse and also a perpetrator of physical and emotional abuse herself, made me somewhat uncomfortable. These discussions, about colluding mothers, are always fraught and difficult. While it is of course Danica's prerogative not to blame her own mother if she chooses to, I found myself troubled at the generalizing of this.There aren't easy answers.
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