Never Tell Mommy: A Memoir

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Summary: Never Tell Mommy gave me Hope
Review: "This book dropped my jaw more than a few times. The author takes you through her life in a sobering view of childhood neglect with a spark of spunkiness and humor that makes you pull for her all the way. Her innocence and Ann Frank type naivete seemed to have saved her from turning hard and bitter and left me feeling uplifted. For someone to go through that kind of adolescence and end up as a loving and well-adjusted person is amazing. It gave me hope."

Rating:
Summary: Never Tell Mommy gave me Hope
Review: "This book dropped my jaw more than a few times. The author takes you through her life in a sobering view of childhood neglect with a spark of spunkiness and humor that makes you pull for her all the way. Her innocence and Ann Frank type naivete seemed to have saved her from turning hard and bitter and left me feeling uplifted. For someone to go through that kind of adolescence and end up as a loving and well-adjusted person is amazing. It gave me hope."

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Summary: Trancendence over sorrow is better than no sorrow
Review: In this lively account of her childhood in a 1930's Los Angeles the author shows a zest for the magic of life that only comes with leaning how to take the good and step out over the bad to reach the stars of your life. How remarkable that at such a young age the author was able to determine her own boundaries of self so that she could decide when, where and how to love whom she would. Most people when faced with a similar choice do not have the awareness to cheerfully fill a shopping basket from their limited store of possibilities and, instead, throw the sky itself away out of the rage that they can't have all the stars they see.

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Summary: Ultimately a tale of hope
Review: Never Tell Mommy is an intensely personal and candid memoir that tells of pressure, resistance, misery, courage, and triumph through a childhood in a dysfunctional family with a sexually abusive father. Fifty years later, author Jackie E. shares the wisdom of learning to accepting the past as part of the self, rather than be haunted by it consider it an enemy. Never Tell Mommy is ultimately a tale of hope, written to show that even those who suffer unspeakable childhood trauma can live fulfilling lives. Highly recommended.