When She Was Good
Norma Fox Mazer
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
3.47
· 13 ratings · 208 pages · Published: 01 Jan 1997
In the sad, shabby trailer where Em Thurkill lived her first fourteen years, suffering her father's alcoholic rages and her mother's deathly silence, and in the three she lived trapped with her violent, unstable sister, there seems more than enough to end even the dream of hope.
Yet Em Thurkill's story is a story of how hope outlives brutality. It is a story of one girl's sweetness, and almost unbearable pain. Heartbreaking, mesmerizing, and ultimately transcendent, this novel is a tribute to the astonishing resilience of the human soul.
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- mental illness 3
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- child abuse 2