RT Book
T1 The taste of anger: a memoir
A1 Vonglis Parnell, Diane 1959-
LA English
PP Berkeley, CA
PB She Writes Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1904235964
AB "It is 1962 and Diane is three years old when her violent father moves her, her pregnant mother, and her six siblings to a remote farm in Upstate New York. There, Diane grabs the reader by the hand and takes them to the broken-down barns, barren fields, and rows of bunk beds in her rat-infested attic bedroom as she questions all that feels wrong about her new world. Watching her ever-pregnant mother grow emotionally colder with each new baby she wonders, 'Where is she when he swings his fists, his steel-toed boot, or a crowbar?' And as she's forced to perform adult manual labor in between the erratic beatings she and her siblings pound on one another to release their own aggressions, she can't help but ask, 'Is this what we’ve become? What I've become?' Narrated in the ever-hopeful voice of a child, The Taste of Anger explores in raw, unflinching detail how years of isolation, oppression, and the threat of retaliation create an environment in which family secrets are guarded at all costs. Tension is palpable with the turning of each page, ensuring that the reader won't let go of Diane's hand until she gets an answer to her most urgent question of all: 'Who will rescue us?'"--Back cover
CN 362.76092
SN 9781647426842
K1 Vonglis Parnell, Diane
K1 Adult child abuse victims : Biography
K1 Dysfunctional families
K1 Family secrets
K1 Enfants maltraités devenus adultes - Biographies
K1 Familles inadaptées
K1 Secrets de famille
K1 autobiographies (literary works)
K1 Autobiographies
K1 Häusliche Gewalt : Autobiografie