S Word (eBook)

A Memoir About Secrets

Paolina Milana (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
256 Seiten
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-63152-928-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In accordance with her Sicilian Catholic family's unspoken code, Paolina Milana learned at an early age to keep her secrets locked away where no one could find them. Nobody outside the family needed to know about the voices her Mamma battled in her head; or about how Paolina forged her birth certificate at thirteen so she could get a job at The Donut Shop; or about the police officer twenty-six years her senior whose promise to her Pap to ';keep an eye on her' quickly translated into something sinister. And perhaps that's why no one saw it coming whenon the eve of her sweet sixteen, pushed to edgePaolina attempted to take her own mother's life. Raw and compelling, The S Word is the true story of a girl who nearly suffocates in the silence she was taught to value above all elseuntil she finally finds the strength to break free of the secrets binding her and save herself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: abuse from authority figures • dysfunctional families • growing up with mentally ill mother • Madness • Mental Illness • mental illness help for families • mental illness hereditary • mental illness in the family • Schizophrenia • sexual awareness • Sicilian code of silence • Sicilian culture • Stigma of Mental Illness • Survival • Surviving Crazy • surviving mental illness • When Madness Comes Home • When mental illness runs in your family
• ISBN-10: 1-63152-928-5 / 1631529285
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63152-928-3 / 9781631529283