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May 26, 2019DanglingConversations rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
If this was not an actual memoir I would find the story hard to believe. The dangers to which the 7 children were exposed by their bi-polar father is heart breaking. Mother seems to have suffered 'Stockholm syndrome' and did little to protect her children, herself being caught up in the paranoid delusions of her husband. I am glad Tara lived to tell the tale. Doubtless her Mormon community is ashamed of their blindness to the neglect these children suffered and perhaps will have learned a lesson for their future. The author exposes painful emotional events in almost poetic language. It is a personal triumph for Tara to have survived and a morality tale for a society which prioritizes parental rights to raise children irrespective of the damage they inflect on their own children. This will make an excellent book for a book-club discussion.