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Summary: IMPOSSIBLE TO READ WITHOUT SHEDDING A TEAR!
Review: This is not an easy book to read, and you may often find yourself having to put the book down once in awhile simply to get away from the horror and reality of child abuse. Silverman is more than a survivor, she is an inspiration to victims who have experienced the savage, psychological, and inhuman terrors of child abuse. In Silverman's case, it tears the reader's heart to the very core to read of the abuse suffered at the hands of the one person who should have provided love and protection - her own father. What goes on behind the closed doors of a prominent, respected family will validate that child abuse knows no barriers or limitations when it comes to social standing. Silverman takes the reader through a nightmarish journey which will make the staunchest of characters break down and weap, not only for Silverman but for all the other innocent children whose childhood is being stolen from them at the hands of an abuser. The scars of child abuse remain forever, but through Silverman's story, she shows a light at the end of the tunnel, and an inner personal strength in reaching out to others that can only truly be understood by someone who has walked in her shoes.
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Summary: Chilling story of child abuse
Review: This is one book I sincerely wish did not have to be written or published, not because it happened, but because I wish something like this never had to happen. I had not heard of Sue William Silverman before picking up her memoir, and the second I closed the covers together I wished that she did not have to live the life she was forced to live. To have survived years of torment and terror, of which Williamson has her own definitions, is truly a testament to the author's will to maintain a normal life beyond the circle of abuse.Written to read like a novel, Because I Remember Terror is a gripping history of abuse and power, and of the subsequent healing and forgiveness. People with weak stomachs should be warned that Silverman does not sugar-coat her childhood--her language, though vibrant and flowing, is quite raw. Those fortunate to have never been sexually abused should read this as an account of a terror that needs to be extinguished. Those who have been abused will look to this book as representation of one woman's survival.
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Summary: A powerful and moving account of survival and recovery.
Review: This is one of the most painfully honest books you will ever read, on a subject that was once taboo but now is being talked about openly more and more. This is not only a harrowing account of the author's sexual abuse by her father for most of her childhood, but a penetrating psychological examination of how she was affected by it, how she was able to survive, and after long hard years of therapy, eventually to recover. It is also a book about how she was able through her writing to find ways of rebuilding a shattered self by acquiring the means of verbal expression that she had been denied as an abused child. The writing of the book, in a sense, becomes the final chapter of her recovery. Needless to say, this is not a pretty story, and I found some parts almost too painful to read, but it is finally a triumphant story that you will not easily forget
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Summary: beautiful survival story
Review: this well-written memoir can be difficult to read at times because it's so heart-wrenching, yet the author's helplessness makes you force yourself to continue reading. you want to protect her and give her hope to help her through. i have had no personal experience with sexual abuse, yet i still connected to this book on both a personal and impersonal level. i couldn't put it down and finished it within 24 hours-- i even read it at work! i think it would be useful as therapy for anyone who is willing to face their own experiences of sexual abuse or emotional abandonment... but i think it is also useful for anyone who seeks insight into why sexual abuse continues to subsist undiscovered--- and the intense emotional harm it causes. fyi there are two main parts to the book - WITH father, and WITHOUT. even after she moves away from her father, she continues to fight within herself for control of her own life. it is a constant struggle and she is continuously strengthening her hold on her own life.
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Summary: beautiful survival story
Review: this well-written memoir can be difficult to read at times because it's so heart-wrenching, yet the author's helplessness makes you force yourself to continue reading. you want to protect her and give her hope to help her through. i have had no personal experience with sexual abuse, yet i still connected to this book on both a personal and impersonal level. i couldn't put it down and finished it within 24 hours-- i even read it at work! i think it would be useful as therapy for anyone who is willing to face their own experiences of sexual abuse or emotional abandonment... but i think it is also useful for anyone who seeks insight into why sexual abuse continues to subsist undiscovered--- and the intense emotional harm it causes. fyi there are two main parts to the book - WITH father, and WITHOUT. even after she moves away from her father, she continues to fight within herself for control of her own life. it is a constant struggle and she is continuously strengthening her hold on her own life.
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Summary: What courage! Thanks Sue William Silverman.
Review: Truly, sexual abuse happens everywhere. To be repeatedly raped by a rich, powerful father--the silencing horror of it. And then, painfully, courageously to regain her own voice. Silverman language is a triumph. I could barely read more than two pages at a time, this story is so powerfully written. A 10
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