This book seemed to me to be a litany of abuses written with an overly accepting attitude- for example "my father took me to a bar and prostituted me but that's okay, that's how he is." There was no sense of the author's own recovery- perhaps there was no recovery- and no sense of affect from the author toward the horrible things her parents did. This book was devoid of what makes us all human- emotion and a human reaction to abuse. Our book club highly disagrees with the "professional" reviews extolling the virtues and courage of this book. We do not recommend this book for discussion.