From The Heart of An Abandoned Daughter

From the Heart of An Abandoned Daughter is about the trauma of family violence. It highlights the inner struggle of the author’s attempt as a child to cope with a terrorizing father and a mother who was so focused on survival that she had to block her own feelings, and consequently, disconnect from her children, leaving them to feel emotionally abandoned rather than protected. Without passing judgment on her parents, author Helen Gennari tells the story of what happened and how she coped by crea