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The Black Spot: a memoir

The Black Spot: a memoir

Linda M.
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THE BLACK SPOT tells, with a dose of humor, of resilience in the face of cruelty, and triumph over dysfunctional parents who attempt to force Linda into submission with a bucket-sized frappe of mental, emotional and physical abuse. Her mother suffers from serial promiscuity and social drunkenness, always wanting to be the perfect wife and mother, but alternates between beating dark secrets out of Linda and beating sense into her, dramatically changing Linda’s educational trajectory. Her father is a Lothario, who suffers from the handicaps of voluntary alcoholism and financial incompetence but loves animals, at least one of his four children, and ridiculously believes family ties should never be broken. Linda “sees” bad things that will happen to those closest to her, including death…but nothing warns her of her own misfortunes. You will find the deceit a child can evidence, amazing, but fitting, given her circumstances. Lying to her parents' creditors and living through their struggles with each other and her struggles with them, she gains coping skills useful at home and ultimately, in the hard-wired testosterone of her professional life. Confronting each parent and prying out painful truths, she comes to understand much of the ruin in all of their lives is the product of generations recycling unimaginable wrongs. Her transformation and triumph over sad beginnings, and the end of relationships with each parent, are completed in surprising and gratifying ways. FROM THE AUTHOR: I’m no celebrity, never was an addict, except for coke as in cola, and don’t have Oprah on speed dial. Mine is not a pity story but a life that might make you laugh when you think you shouldn’t and it might make you weep, but not for long. Told in the vein of “The Glass Castle” and “Furiously Happy” , my readers will include those who seek to understand and laugh at the darkness and know they are loved—isn’t that some part of nearly everyone’s life?
Language
English
Pages
310
Format
Paperback
Release
September 06, 2019
ISBN 13
9781733436007

The Black Spot: a memoir

Linda M.
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
THE BLACK SPOT tells, with a dose of humor, of resilience in the face of cruelty, and triumph over dysfunctional parents who attempt to force Linda into submission with a bucket-sized frappe of mental, emotional and physical abuse. Her mother suffers from serial promiscuity and social drunkenness, always wanting to be the perfect wife and mother, but alternates between beating dark secrets out of Linda and beating sense into her, dramatically changing Linda’s educational trajectory. Her father is a Lothario, who suffers from the handicaps of voluntary alcoholism and financial incompetence but loves animals, at least one of his four children, and ridiculously believes family ties should never be broken. Linda “sees” bad things that will happen to those closest to her, including death…but nothing warns her of her own misfortunes. You will find the deceit a child can evidence, amazing, but fitting, given her circumstances. Lying to her parents' creditors and living through their struggles with each other and her struggles with them, she gains coping skills useful at home and ultimately, in the hard-wired testosterone of her professional life. Confronting each parent and prying out painful truths, she comes to understand much of the ruin in all of their lives is the product of generations recycling unimaginable wrongs. Her transformation and triumph over sad beginnings, and the end of relationships with each parent, are completed in surprising and gratifying ways. FROM THE AUTHOR: I’m no celebrity, never was an addict, except for coke as in cola, and don’t have Oprah on speed dial. Mine is not a pity story but a life that might make you laugh when you think you shouldn’t and it might make you weep, but not for long. Told in the vein of “The Glass Castle” and “Furiously Happy” , my readers will include those who seek to understand and laugh at the darkness and know they are loved—isn’t that some part of nearly everyone’s life?
Language
English
Pages
310
Format
Paperback
Release
September 06, 2019
ISBN 13
9781733436007

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