Release of an Autobiographical Work of Fiction
(The Result of Hypergraphia/Therapeutic Writing Journey)
Emily, a desperate young girl who unlocks dark secrets and comes of age
in the midst of physical and emotional abandonment.
Book Reviews:
April 2009
Release of an Autobiographical Work of Fiction
(The Result of Hypergraphia/Therapeutic Writing Journey)
Emily, a desperate young girl who unlocks dark secrets and comes of age
in the midst of physical and emotional abandonment.
Book Reviews:
"Great book. Powerful writing. Haunting words. I have read many books about abuse. This one really
focuses on the truly dark secrets and the struggles that continued to cling for a very long time.
— "Dore
The toughest book I ever loved.
From the first chapter Janie had me, this was one of the hardest books I ever read and one of the hardest books to put down. I think this is a great book for pre or early teens but I believe it should also be read by every adult. For me it brought back a lot of memories of a rough childhood that I survived and it was wonderful to see how Emily survived hers. I think that if a child is going through a tough time in their lives it helps to read about other children going through some of the same things and coming through it a better person for it. I found it to be therapeutic and comforting. — Cindy
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Synopsis
Emily is enshrouded by her mother's dark world, a world of secrets and loneliness. Fear of disappearing into her mother's darkness and an internal hunger for life and happiness forces her to face her mother, and her fear.
Emily thinks her way out is to find her missing father. When this leads to disappointment she thinks she has come to the end of the road, the end of her hope. Then she discovers another secret. A secret more enduring, more fulfilling. She discovers her true identity.
This leads to a hope of securing a better future for herself and a family she one day hopes to have. She finds the door to her hopes and dreams and becomes determined to resist the harsh mold her mother has for her.
Emily is powerless at times against her mother's unrelenting control and blames herself for how her mother treats her. She's fears that she may be doomed to become like her mother. But her keen power of observation and love for books gives her glimpses into a better life and this instills in her a strong desire and a hope for her future.
Her Aunt Karen becomes a catalyst for freeing Emily from her heaviness of heart and carrying her mother's guilt. No longer blaming herself she moves on apart from her mother's controlling her every thought and action. Emily moves beyond her fear and feelings of worthlessness, always trying to please the unpleasable, cure the incurable, change the unchangeable. Her mother. She is no longer confused about right or wrong, fair or unfair, true or untrue.
A battle of wills ensues. Emily against her own fears and her mother's harsh control. She finds strength of character from books she reads, determination from an Ann with an e, an awakening spirit from a secret garden, a positive frame of mind from a Pollyanna and a real family from a little house on a prairie.
Emily has to remain under her mother's roof until she grows up. But she is determined to take what control she has to work toward preserving herself for both a present and future life, to endure what she must, enjoy what she can, and plan what she will one day do and become.
And she does all this as she climbs out of her mother's darkness.
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