A collection of provocative stories explores the pleasures and rituals of dominance and submission and articulates the psychological desires that direct people into this type of relationship
Elissa Wald Knihy
Elissa Waldová se ve své tvorbě zaměřuje na provokativní témata a osobní zkušenosti, které ji formovaly během života. Její psaní se vyznačuje upřímností a pohledem na život z neobvyklých úhlů. Prostřednictvím svých textů zkoumá složitost lidských vztahů a hledá pravdu v různých životních situacích. Její literární hlas je jedinečný a přináší čtenářům neotřelé pohledy.
American Daughter
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
"A STORY OF REDEMPTION AND FORGIVENESS"--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immediate family would have guessed that her childhood was fraught with every imaginable hardship: a mentally ill mother who was in and out of jails and psych wards throughout Stephanie's formative years, neglect, hunger, poverty, homelessness, truancy, foster homes, a harrowing lack of medical care, and ongoing sexual abuse. Stephanie, in turn, knew very little about the past of her mother, from whom she remained estranged during most of her adult life. All this changed with a phone call that set a journey of discovery in motion, leading to a series of shocking revelations that forced Stephanie to revise the meaning of almost every aspect of her very compromised childhood. American Daughter is at once the deeply moving memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on trauma, resilience, transcendence, and redemption. Stephanie's story is unique but its messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to survive, to rise above, to heal, and to forgive.
