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Sylvia Fraser, a Canadian author, brings her personal experience into a candid biography. After years of walking into the world with amnesia, she pieces together a painful past marked by sexual abuse by her own father. In recounting the early years of childhood and youth, Fraser offers a raw and intimate portrait of family relationships that were marred by incest and abuse, while also documenting her struggle for identity and healing as an adult child sexual abuse victim. Through this memoir, she gives voice to the challenges faced by those who endure and later confront such trauma, illuminating the ways personal narratives can foster understanding and catharsis.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Sylvia Fraser
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